homebrew-bundle

Very nice, I think I'll be moving my "must-have" homebrew packages to a Brewfile. FYI tho, Homebrew no longer supports Brewfile.lock.json (it was always just a log anyway, not a lockfile). https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/pull/1509

Similar here. More than onboarding, there is also the question of changing your laptop, and having to setup everything again. Some pieces of software that help: - Humble bundle (https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-bundle) with a `Brewfile` stored in git and shared; - dump of all dot files in $HOME encrypted and stored in the company's cloud (because it contains ssh private keys, or password manager db, etc); - All documents are synchronized with OneDrive. Mostly, there isn't a one-size fits all, but there is a common set of packages that all devs want, but IDE choice is personal, and many other things.

I maintain a Brewfile (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle) which contains the majority of the non-project specific applications that I like to install on any new Mac: https://github.com/jonahgeorge/dotfiles/tree/main What's really nice is the `cask` & `mas` keywords allow you to install .dmg files & directly from the App Store. --- While its not included in there yet, I've been experimenting with maintaining a private Homebrew tap which contains my ~/bin directory as opposed to shell aliases.

nix-darwin supports managing your Brewfile. The docs[2] are very helpful! [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle [2]: https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/index.html#opt-homebre...

> It's strange that people are so against declarative systems, or even file-based OS configuration. When I get my new Macbook I was up-and-running within a few minutes. I can't imagine maintaining a list of brews I need to re-install just to set up everything + my configs + everything else. I haven’t had time to try Nix yet, but HomeBrew does have a declarative-ish workflow that I’ve been using for years: Brew Bundle [1] lets you have a plaintext file listing all packages you want installed on your system. Add a line for stuff you want installed, delete a line for stuff you want removed, invoke it the right way and it will install/remove packages until your system matches the list. The initial list can be generated by “brew bundle dump” or something like that. For configuration, I find that a normal dotfile repo cloned into my ~/.config (

Brew supports dumping installed things into a brewfile: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle I was using text files before as well to manage it.

Assuming everyone's on a Mac, I'm actually surprised there isn't that much use of something like homebrew-bundle[1]. It's definitely nicer to have your tooling run natively rather than, say, trying to wrap everything in Docker, or trying to get everybody on board with nix or guix. I think the only real issue here is that you can't really pin to specific versions unless a formula exists, and there is no guarantee that a formula with a pinned version will stick around because homebrew likes to stay lean. So to that extent it can still be unclear what version of software someone is running on after enough time. [1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/

Speaking of homebrew: As a new homebrew user, I really appreciate Brewfiles, kept in version control with other dotfiles, installed/updated via brew bundle -v See more info in the semi official docs of the subcommand: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

Not necessarily all open source, homebrew-cask has been merged into brew and you have e.g. Jetbrains IDEs and Zoom available. Personally I use homebrew-cask to manage almost all applications and their updates, turning auto-updating off in almost all apps. That way I am in control and can update when it is convenient, know if an update broke something, etc. Edit, using: - https://github.com/buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

What do you use to sync apps/settings etc across multiple devices (Mac and/or Linux)? When I was using linux I used Stow [1] to manage my dotfiles and configs. When I moved to Mac, I started maintaining a Brewfile under my dotfiles repository [2], with a combinations of homebrew [3], homebrew-bundle [4], mas [5] and whalebrew [6] that installs all the apps (cli, native apps, docker images, app store etc) I still have to install homebrew in the beginning and login to iCloud but this setup works. I still have to setup each app individually. I also tried Ansible and @geerlingguy fantastic Mac setup Ansible playbook [6], but I was not able to automate the process as I needed to have python3 and ansible setup correctly in my system first. I would like to know what workflow do other hackers use to quickly setup new machines and make them produc

In the readme it's mentioned. brew bundle dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...

Basically grabbing a saved Brewfile[1], running `brew bundle install` and waiting a while. [1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

I load my major config files (fish, tmux, emacs) in a CI alpine container[0] and check that they're not broken when i commit them. If you're on OS X then `brew bundle dump` and `brew bundle install` will also help[1] [0] circleci config: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bauerd/27b24d1a3f881fe508... [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

`brew bundle dump` will be your new best friend. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle