homebrew-cask-fonts will soon be deprecated

[miccal]

Hello, I am a maintainer for the Homebrew project and I am opening this issue to inform you that we will be deprecating homebrew-cask-fonts and migrating all fonts to the main homebrew-cask repository.

Please check Homebrew/homebrew-cask#112102 (comment) and the comments there-after for more context.

Any questions, please reach out.

Thanks.

[iandol]

Hi @miccal -- thanks first of all for your hard work. So the theory is that homebrew/linux-fonts should pick up automatically this shift? Currently I cannot install any fonts on Ubuntu.

[miccal]

Hi @miccal -- thanks first of all for your hard work. So the theory is that homebrew/linux-fonts should pick up automatically this shift? Currently I cannot install any fonts on Ubuntu.

Yes; basically instead of this repo pulling their updates from https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts/tree/master/Casks the updates should now be pulled from https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/tree/master/Casks/font.

Hopefully it should just be a simple matter of updating https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-linux-fonts/blob/master/.github/workflows/ruby.yml accordingly.

[tani]

Thank you for the information. I am going migrate the repository in a few days.

[tani]

Thanks to @SMillerDev, I am restoring all the formulas in the repository. Thanks for the information! Cheers.

[iandol]

@tani -- Hi this is not working in the wild. Trying to install fonts after updating brew on linux and it errors saying to use --cask to install, but casks don't work and that is the reason this repo exists.

[iandol]

▶︎ brew update
==> Updating Homebrew...
Already up-to-date.
                                                                                                                                   
▶︎ brew install font-inconsolata
==> Auto-updating Homebrew...
Adjust how often this is run with HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS or disable with
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
Warning: Formula homebrew/linux-fonts/font-inconsolata was renamed to homebrew/cask/font-inconsolata.
Warning: No available formula with the name "font-inconsolata". Did you mean font-inconsolata-g or font-inconsolata-lgc?
It was migrated from homebrew/linux-fonts to homebrew/cask.
You can access it again by running:
  brew tap homebrew/cask
And then you can install it by running:
  brew install --cask font-inconsolata

[tani]

@iandol @azmodude Thanks for pointing that out. I mistakenly merged the upstream homebrew-cask-fonts in commit 699e066, specifically affecting tap_migrations.json. I've now removed it, and everything should be working correctly.

[azmodude]

@tani Thanks a lot, that fixed it.

[tani]

I am glad to hear that. Thank you!

[iandol]

Hi @tani -- this is still not working for me:

▷ brew untap homebrew/linux-fonts
Untapping homebrew/linux-fonts...
Untapped (33 files, 32.8MB).
                                                                                                                                   
▶︎ brew tap homebrew/linux-fonts
==> Auto-updating Homebrew...
Adjust how often this is run with HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS or disable with
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
==> Tapping homebrew/linux-fonts
Cloning into '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-linux-fonts'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 174576, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (33254/33254), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8186/8186), done.
remote: Total 174576 (delta 25485), reused 32684 (delta 25064), pack-reused 141322
Receiving objects: 100% (174576/174576), 28.05 MiB | 4.64 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (139995/139995), done.
Tapped (26 files, 32.8MB).
   

▶︎ brew tap
homebrew/core
homebrew/linux-fonts
rsteube/tap
                                                                                                                                   
▶︎ brew install font-inconsolata --HEAD
==> Auto-updating Homebrew...
Adjust how often this is run with HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS or disable with
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
Warning: No available formula with the name "font-inconsolata". Did you mean fonts-encodings?
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
==> Formulae
fonts-encodings

To install fonts-encodings, run:
  brew install fonts-encodings

When I tap homebrew/linux-fonts the tap only contains 26 files?

I tried to use the full path to the tap:

▷ brew install homebrew/linux-fonts/font-inconsolata --HEAD
==> Auto-updating Homebrew...
Adjust how often this is run with HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS or disable with
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
Warning: No available formula with the name "homebrew/linux-fonts/font-inconsolata".
homebrew/linux-fonts/font-inconsolata was deleted from homebrew/linux-fonts in commit cf9a528bb:
  Remove font-inconsolata.rb

To show the formula before removal, run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/linux-fonts)" show cf9a528bb^:Formula/font-inconsolata.rb

If you still use this formula, consider creating your own tap:

[tani]

I am sorry for that. I noticed that the all formulas were removed in this morning after scheduled task. I have no idea for that at this moment. Give me a day to investigate this issue. Cheers.

[SMillerDev]

Attempt two: #45

[Bo98]

If we want a quick fix, the issue is because the path here is wrong:

homebrew-linux-fonts/.github/workflows/ruby.yml

Line 34 in 58f691d

comm -23 --nocheck-order <(ls -1 Formula) <(ls -1 homebrew-cask/Casks/font/) | xargs -I{} sh -c 'git rm ./Formula/{} && git commit -m "Remove {}"'

ls: cannot access 'homebrew-cask/Casks/font/': No such file or directory

[Bo98]

I've pushed the above fix to make things working again for now: 214139f, plus some other minor fixes (616532e, 9db39b0, 3937bbb). We can continue discussion about a bigger refactor in #45 since that's still WIP (it doesn't have commit code yet), but things should be working again now.

I've re-run the workflow and everything looks to be back. Thanks for reporting!

[iandol]

Thank you @Bo98 -- I can now see the formulas and they are available. However trying to install one and I get an error:

▶︎ brew install font-stix
==> Auto-updating Homebrew...
Adjust how often this is run with HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS or disable with
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
==> Fetching homebrew/linux-fonts/font-stix
==> Downloading https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts/archive/v2.13.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /home/cog5/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/bfe9076c8d2f2051b7e2f0b7e95f82e4eacb501738c2c40f4e0ef682f6ca7b11--stixfonts-2.13.tar.gz
==> Installing font-stix from homebrew/linux-fonts
Error: An exception occurred within a child process:
  TypeError: Parameter 'sources': Expected type T.any(Pathname, Resource, Resource::Partial, String, T::Array[T.any(Pathname, String)], T::Hash[T.any(Pathname, String), String]), got type NilClass
Caller: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.3.0/gems/sorbet-runtime-0.5.11388/lib/types/private/methods/call_validation.rb:215
Definition: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:93

Should I report as a new issue, and can anyone else see this?

[Bo98]

That is a separate issue. Seems to be a regression from fixing #40. I can have a look to see what can be done to make formula installing more consistent to casks.