From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:52:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci/install-depends: attempt to fix "brew cask" stuff Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <19de3b73-80c6-ccea-9289-fd3f82c103ac@gmail.com> Derrick Stolee writes: > On 1/15/2021 12:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> It seems that homebrew suddenly started giving us trouble, like this: >>> >>> https://github.com/git/git/runs/1705953982?check_suite_focus=true#step:3:70 >>> >>> Here is my attempt to work it around by blindly following the >>> suggested course of action in the error message, without knowing >>> what I am doing X-<. I am not a Mac person. >>> >>> What is frustrating is that every time we hit a minor snag like this >>> to break one of the jobs, all other unrelated jobs are also taken >>> down. >>> >>> Help by those who know what they are doing on macOS would greatly be >>> appreciated. Thanks. >> >> After seeing 'seen' with this patch at its tip pass the tests [*1*], >> I prepared a merge of this change into the tip of 'next' and >> tentatively updated 'seen' with it. >> >> The test is still running [*2*], but the problematic part in the >> macOS build has already passed, so I am planning to fast-track this >> change down to 'next', 'master' and eventually down to 'maint' to >> keep the CI going to help other platforms catch more interesting >> problems. >> >> Help from those who are more familiar with macOS and homebrew is >> still appreciated, though. >> >> >> [References] >> >> *1* https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/486978562 >> *2* https://github.com/git/git/runs/1706704233?check_suite_focus=true#step:3:81 > > We recently hit this same issue with our macOS builds for Scalar > and GCM core. Your solution looks very similar to how we fixed > the problem. > > Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee Thanks.