How to prevent homebrew from deleting packages automatically?
Almost each time I install something using homebrew, after installing my desired package, it attempts to automatically delete presumably old packages. How can I stop this from occurring? I'm tired of fixing things I'm still using because of whatever logic is encoded into homebrew.
Is there a switch or config setting I can use to disable this behaviour (brew cleanup)?
EDIT Output when I installed pv
user@host:[ 3:03]$ brew install pv
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated Homebrew from 35f59eb3c to 4bbe34075.
Updated 7 taps (osrf/simulation, homebrew/cask-versions, homebrew/core, homebrew/cask, homebrew/bundle, homebrew/services and adoptopenjdk/openjdk).
==> New Formulae
apt cruft fanyi joplin-cli newrelic-infra-agent ots pari-galpol procps singularity xsel
aws-vault docuum firefoxpwa libaec onedrive pari-elldata pari-seadata pyoxidizer spot
bupstash eigenpy i2c-tools mailcatcher opensearch-dashboards pari-galdata pari-seadata-big rsc_2fa xauth
==> Updated Formulae
Updated 1023 formulae.
==> Renamed Formulae
prestosql -> trino
==> Deleted Formulae
terraform-provisioner-ansible tj
==> New Casks
betterdiscord-installer foxglove-studio kdocs open-video-downloader temurin transfer wifi-explorer-pro
blackhole-64ch gosign leapp shottr temurin11 trezor-suite wing-personal
clay jiohome midi-router-client stork temurin8 vym zebra2
==> Updated Casks
Updated 684 casks.
==> Deleted Casks
3cxphone anytrans-for-android deadbeef macclean phoneclean phonetrans spectrum uberconference youtube-dl-gui
anytrans baiducloud imobie-m1-app-checker phonebrowse phonerescue postgres-beta superbeam wingpersonal
==> Homebrew was updated to version 3.2.8
The changelog can be found at:
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases/tag/3.2.8
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/pv/manifests/1.6.6-1
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==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/pv/blobs/sha256:9bb586c4dab67989e7fa800e7c764d1d4ee153db8ad7a5ed3563270ca93a7497
==> Downloading from https://pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com/ghcr1/blobs/sha256:9bb586c4dab67989e7fa800e7c764d1d4ee153db8ad7a5ed3563270ca93a7497?se=2021-08-20T10%3A15%3A00Z&sig=w9ejSn6NMsklM8vDAsWuJ1vv5MjiW3cYS4Cca7bPWHI%3D&sp=r&spr=https&sr=b&sv=2
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring pv--1.6.6.catalina.bottle.1.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/pv/1.6.6: 5 files, 112.8KB
==> `brew cleanup` has not been run in 30 days, running now...
Removing: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/c-ares--1.17.1... (162.9KB)
Removing: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/eigen--3.3.9... (1.1MB)
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.52... (1,678 files, 69.3MB)
Error: Directory not empty @ dir_s_rmdir - /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.52
Making sure autoupdate is not running is a pre-requisite, most people will not have opted in to this, though.
brew autoupdate stop
- https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#autoupdate-subcommand-interval-options
Next, you may want to pin your installs as soon as they happen or call for an older version that doesn’t let the auto update run at install time. You are being affected by a change that many people wanted to ensure they get security updates. Assuming pinning works for you, you might still let the rest of the system upgrade regularly and not have to hack the script to change its behavior.
brew pin pv