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zzh1996
zzh1996

Reputation: 500

Tell homebrew never build from source

During package installation via homebrew on macOS, if my network is not stable and one download fails, homebrew will download the source and start building from source. This will take a long time and high CPU usage, which is unwanted. How can I tell homebrew retry or just stop when downloading fails?

==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/sqlite-3.27.1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz

curl: (35) LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to homebrew.bintray.com:443 
Error: Failed to download resource "sqlite"
Download failed: https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/sqlite-3.27.1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
Warning: Bottle installation failed: building from source.
==> Downloading https://sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-autoconf-3270100.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/sqlite/3.27.1 --enable-dynamic-extensions --enable-readline --disable-editline
^C

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4852

Answers (2)

aj-vargas
aj-vargas

Reputation: 98

Late answer but another way to make it fail without building from source is setting the HOMEBREW_NO_BOTTLE_SOURCE_FALLBACK environment variable explained in the man page, e.g. export HOMEBREW_NO_BOTTLE_SOURCE_FALLBACK=1.

I haven't tested it yet, as I found the solution after I needed it.

Upvotes: 8

bfontaine
bfontaine

Reputation: 19849

You can brew fetch --retry <formula> to retry the fetching if it fails. Once the bottle is fetched, you can brew install it.

Combine both commands with:

brew fetch --retry <formula> && brew install <formula>

Upvotes: 3

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