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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/15/2021 12:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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 <dstolee@microsoft.com>

Thanks.