homebrew operation

Taps Homebrew repositories and installs formulae and/or casks.

Omni will keep track of the repositories it taps (that weren't already available in the system) and of the formulas and casks it installs. When running omni down, if some of those dependencies were installed by omni and are no more used by any of the repositories omni up-ed, those will be automatically uninstalled.

info

If brew is not available on the system, this step will be ignored.

Alternative names

• brew

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
tap	list of tap	List of repositories to tap
install	list of install	List of formulae and casks to install

tap

Parameter	Type	Description
repo	string	The name of the repository to tap, in the <owner>/<repo> format
url	string	The URL to tap the repository from (necessary if not following the https://github.com/<owner>/homebrew-<repo> format)
upgrade	boolean	whether or not to always try and update the tap (default: false)

install

Parameter	Type	Description
formula	string	The name of the formula to install (cannot be used along with cask)
cask	string	The name of the cask to install (cannot be used along with formula)
version	string	The version to install for the formula or cask
upgrade	boolean	whether or not to always try and update the formula or cask (default: false)

Examples

up:
  # Will do nothing if no parameters are passed
  - homebrew

  # We can call it with the alternative name too
  - brew

  # We can decide to only install a number of formulas and casks
  - homebrew:
    # Regular formulas
    - bash
    - git
    # A formula from a tap, without tapping first
    - xaf/omni/omni
    # A formula with a version number; if the formula
    # with that name and version is not available directly
    # nor from a tap, omni will try and fetch that specific
    # version into a local tap to install it
    - formula: pnpm
      version: 8.6.3
    # And we can install a cask
    - cask: betterzip

  # We can also install formulas using the `install` key
  - homebrew:
      install:
        - bash
        - git

  # We can tap a repository before installing formulas
  - homebrew:
      tap:
        - xaf/omni
      install:
        - omni

  # We can also specify the url of the repository to tap if needed
  - homebrew:
      tap:
        - repo: xaf/omni
          url: https://github.com/XaF/omni
      install:
        - omni

Dynamic environment

The following variables will be set as part of the dynamic environment.

Environment variable	Operation	Description
PATH	prepend	For formulas, uses $(brew --prefix --installed <formula>)/bin; for casks, adds any bin directory containing at least one executable in the $(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/<cask> directory; in both cases, also injects the $(brew --prefix)/bin directory