Re: [PATCH] ci/install-depends: attempt to fix "brew cask" stuff

On 1/15/2021 12:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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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 <redacted>