Request: move Boxen homebrew install to /usr/local

[indirect]

So right now Boxen has a lot of code (that is getting smaller, thanks @dgoodlad!) to work around the way that homebrew very, very strongly expects to be installed into /usr/local. In addition, keeping homebrew in /opt/boxen/homebrew means that it's not possible to use many of the pre-compiled homebrew bottles.

Boxen's readme already makes it clear that it doesn't work with existing homebrew installs in /usr/local, and rubies are already installed outside /opt/boxen (into /opt/rubies).

Since it seems impractical and/or unlikely that puppet-homebrew will ever have even close to as many compiled binaries as homebrew has bottles, can we just move boxen's homebrew into /usr/local and get bottles for everything for free? As a bonus, it would probably then be possible to stop maintaining the entire boxen-install command...

[dgoodlad]

tl;dr: Yes. 😁

Seriously, I have the homebrew package provider open in my editor right now, working on getting the homebrew root configurable with hiera, which I will default to /usr/local.

[indirect]

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:21 PM, David Goodlad [email protected]
wrote:

tl;dr: Yes. 😁

Seriously, I have the homebrew package provider open in my editor right now, working on getting the homebrew root configurable with hiera, which I will default to /usr/local.

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[ghost]

Anticipatory 👏

I look forward to issues like pkrumins/node-png#45 becoming a thing of the past.

[indirect]

Oh yeah! Is this done yet? @dgoodlad, are you done being hungover after RubyConf AU yet? 😀 (Sorry I didn't manage to say hi! I did see you from across the room and say "hi david" once 😛)

[ghost]

@indirect you can change boxen_root via facts.d, for example: dd48f30e.

However, when I did this more things broke for me than when I left it as /opt/boxen. I expect this to swing the other way soon enough.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I've been running Boxen's Homebrew in /usr/local for a few months now and it's working great.

[pencil]

Is there a way to disable the puppet-homebrew bottle monkey patches? I switched to /usr/local using homebrew_root but for some reason end up compiling qt4.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@pencil The monkey patches won't do that; that'll probably be done by Qt trying to build with an option.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Closing this out as you can now install into /usr/local and Homebrew's bottles are used.

[kylemclaren]

@MikeMcQuaid know of an easy way to migrate from /opt/boxen to /usr/local?

[MikeMcQuaid]

@kylemclaren sudo rm -rf /opt/boxen/homebrew /opt/rubies and rerun Boxen.

[kylemclaren]

@MikeMcQuaid you're a legend, thank you!

[carrchr]

wouldn't this command sudo rm -rf /opt/boxen/homebrew /opt/rubies nuke all the stuff you've downloaded/installed into home-brew and require re-installing it all? Are you supposed to mv /opt/boxen/homebrew /usr/local/homebrew first?

[MikeMcQuaid]

wouldn't this command sudo rm -rf /opt/boxen/homebrew /opt/rubies nuke all the stuff you've downloaded/installed into home-brew and require re-installing it all?

yes

Are you supposed to mv /opt/boxen/homebrew /usr/local/homebrew first?

no; you cannot move things around like this as paths are hardcoded in binaries.

[carrchr]

okay. thank you for the clarification