Minibrew

Minibrew is a miniature self-contained brew for a specific set of packages and versions of those packages.

It allows you to download the metadata needed to install a set of brew packages you specify together in their own directory apart from the "system brew."

You can then ship a small tarball with this metadata and scripts to a user and they can download and setup the binaries for those packages easily without ever utilizing brew itself.

Configuring the packages desired

Edit the go.pl file and place the packages you want into the @basic array starting on line 30.

Fetch the primary metadata ( dlinfo.json )

Then run the go.pl script to fetch the metadata.

[~/git/minibrew]$ ./go.pl

If some of the packages you specific have a missing dependency the script will error out saying that the dependency is missing. You should then add that dependency to the list in go.pl and run the script again.

After the script is run a few things happen:

1. A dlinfo.json file is created containing the metadata of the packages.

2. JSON files with information about each package are written into the json folder.

Fetch package archive size information ( json/dlsize.json )

After successfully running go.pl without any missing dependencies, you should run the check.pl script within the json folder.

Do this:

[~/git/minibrew]$ cd json
[~/git/minbrew/json]$ ./check.pl

This will create the file json/dlsize.json, which contains the filesizes of each of the possible package archives that may be downloaded when deploying the set of packages.

Create minibrew_deploy setup

Clone minibrew_deploy

Copy dlinfo.json and dlsize.json into the root of minibrew_deploy.

Create deployable minibrew.tar.xz

Run make in the minibrew_deploy folder.

[~/git/minibrew_deploy]$ make

Deploying minibrew setup

Distribute the minibrew.tar.xz archive to whoever needs to deploy the specific package set.

[~/]$ mkdir minibrew
[~/]$ cd minibrew
[~/minibrew]$ curl http://somesite.com/your_minibrew.tar.xz
[~/minibrew]$ tar -xf your_minibrew.tar.xz
[~/minibrew]$ cd your_minibrew
[~/minibrew/your_minibrew]$ ./deploy.pl