kroepke/brew-packages — Issue #1: Pidof available?
Author: theiostream
Created: 2011-10-21 13:04:21+00:00
State: open

Not sure if for you, but I tried using `brew install pidof` without running the shell script and it worked like a charm... Looks like someone probably updated the formula for it.

And also, instead of creating a collection of shell scripts to move some tars to the cache, why not sending a pull request to the Homebrew folks with a reachable address of the package? Sometimes the tar is there, just the address has changed.

This project is interesting if they stopped providing a tar package and the formula is still on brew, yet if they did and it was previously on brew, the developers of the package must have had a good reason to do it, and reaching that package should be used as a last resort, such as a dependency et al. If so I would find this very useful. Still I haven't seen that happening yet.

A nice solution would be actually making this project something like **Unofficial Distributions of Brew Formulas**, where you could update the pidof one, for instance. You can try contributing to Homebrew with it, and if they take too long to accept your changes/don't accept the formula just keep it here. A great effort on brew *lost packages*.

Thanks for reading,
~ theiostream