homebrew Formula to install package

Question

As part of new joinees, we provide the FAQ for running internal homebrew formula, that installs from zip/tar.gz files, we install using " brew tap ..." . However, we are separately running "brew install mariadb@10.2" as well as running "brew tap...". Question - wanted to consolidate all brew commands into one using formula, i.e i wanted to have ability to install for this package name "mariadb@10.2" into TAP formula we have.

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Let me know if not clear.

Answer 1

You can run brew install mariadb@10.2 && brew tap ..., but you can’t combine brew install mariadb@10.2 and brew tap ... into one brew command.

However, running brew install on a formula from a tap you don’t have automatically taps the latter:

brew install org/tap/thing

Is equivalent to:

brew tap org/tap
brew install org/tap/thing

Where org/tap is the GitHub repository https://github.com/org/homebrew-tap.

This means that if you want to install mariadb@10.2 as well as some other formula from that tap, you can run a command like this:

brew install mariadb@10.2 org/firsttimesetup/xyz

Which is equivalent to:

brew tap org/firsttimesetup
brew install mariadb@10.2 org/firsttimesetup/xyz