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I had errors with Homebrew and Go this week. In both cases, it was an issue with Websense (also known as Forcepoint). Might your issue be related to that?
Brew claimed it couldn't find the downcase for another package, not Go.
brew update
I realise that's outside of it's intended feature set, and it's fine for getting dependencies for other people's github projects or whatever. But what I'd really like is the ability to get dependencies that I can feed into my CI system to build software I intend to give to end users.
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I switched to MacPorts following the Google Analytics debacle [1] and how it was handled [2]. I had this expectation that MacPorts would be backwards and full of ancient packages but it's not - it's fantastic! The package repository is really good, the project itself is stable and it doesn't have a default-on analytics component aggregating my package data at Google. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11566720…
Last time I used Macports, the installation procedure took about six hours of compiling all packages from source (granted, that was an Atom processor). Does it support binary packages now?
Among all the software I use, Homebrew must be the one giving me the least trouble. I have 100 installed packages and I don't remember the last time anything didn't work. Plus, for anything I care about, updates seem to always take less than a day, usually it's almost instantaneous. In comparison with MacPorts before, it's like night and day. npm/pip/mix/bundler all seem to periodically conspire to waste a few hours…
Two things really help: pipsi (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/pipsi), which installs tools inside their own virtualenv and PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV, which stops pip from working outside a virtualenv.
I can see a point in the future where everything is installed via a homebrew-like process. Forget CPAN, CRAN, ports, pypi, go-get, rpm, apt, cabal, crate, opam, ... Just get it from github or similar with homebrew.
Great job for the brew maintainers and contributers. You guys make everyone's job a lot easy!
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My experience is quite the opposite. Lots of missing packages in brew compared to debian. And brew has been nothing but trouble for all the devs in my team. It keeps messing up /usr/local permissions for some reason. And if you don't update brew frequently it will bork itself. Apt-get or better yet aptitude is rock solid.
They are more solid, but never up to date with new bits, so you're stuck managing your own curated list of ppa's.
It's pretty common to use Debian stable and vendor/community repos for specific packages you want more up-to-date packages of.
I'm excited about Homebrew potentially coming to Linux. When I first started using OS X more regularly, I was surprised by how better an experience OS X + Homebrew is compared to Ubuntu/Debian repositories + PPAs/third-party repositories.
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Not sure if that's what you wanna do but you could do : "ls /usr/local/Cellar/ | cat >> myInstall.txt"
I just do this for now: cat brew_install.txt It lists directly from brew, prepends brew install and then replaces all newlines with a space and outputs to brew_install.txt