Homebrew recipe without url
Is it possible to create a Homebrew Formula that doesn't need a URL to download?
In my case the recipe just depends on other recipes and installs a homebrew specific shell script.
class Test < Formula
desc "Test"
homepage "https://test.com"
version "1.0"
depends_on "yschimke/tap/oksocial"
def install
(bin+"testoksocial").write <<-EOS.undent
#!/bin/sh
echo Hello
EOS
end
end
But running this gives
$ brew install ./test.rb
Error: formulae require at least a URL
Please report this bug:
https://git.io/brew-troubleshooting
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:193:in `determine_active_spec'
You have to use an url in your receipt, that's mandatory.
You don't have to use the http(s) url scheme, you can also use file:. If you don't need any content, you can use the /dev/null file. It can even have a checksum to silence the related warning.
url "file:///dev/null"
sha256 "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855"
I got it working by creating an empty tar file and linking to that. But I'm curious if there are better ways.
$ tar cvf empty.tar --files-from /dev/null