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Jerm
Jerm

Reputation: 83

Brew List and Install Specific Versions of Formula

I would like to install 2.6.X but cannot find documentation on how to specify a formula version. Brew is only installing the latest version of the formula.

I'm using the following versions of brew

Homebrew 1.8.6
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 5ea559; last commit 2018-12-18)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 4144b74; last commit 2018-12-18)

I'm upgrading from 2.2.1 and want to be pinned to 2.6.X

ls /usr/local/Cellar/ansible
2.2.1.0_2   2.3.1.0     2.7.5

brew search ansible
==> Formulae
ansible ✔                                 ansible-cmdb                              
ansible-lint                              ansible@1.9                               
ansible@2.0                               terraform-provisioner-ansible 
==> Casks
ansible-dk

brew install ansible

ansible --version
ansible 2.7.5

If someone could point me to the correct docs at https://docs.brew.sh/ to both list all available versions and to install specific versions that would be awesome.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5194

Answers (1)

Ortomala Lokni
Ortomala Lokni

Reputation: 62663

Go to the directory containing formulas:

cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula

Look at the history of the ansible formula

git log -- ansible.rb

Select the commit where the version you are interested in is and checkout this formula:

git checkout f9466d14ee6e9fa7a -- ansible.rb

Install that formula:

HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install ansible

Check the installation of ansible:

ansible --version

Pin this version of the formula to avoid upgrade

brew pin ansible

That's it, an I'm not sure that this is in the documentation.

Upvotes: 6

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