Confused about brew bundle

[ChristopherA]

A number of websites talk about having a Brewfile that is executed by brew bundle. However, when I try this I get "Error: Unknown command: bundle". In all other ways, brew is working. Looking at man brew and searching the wiki here it doesn't seem to be a current feature of brew.

Any ideas? Is this feature not in the current build? Is it a deprecated feature?

-- Christopher Allen

$ which brew
/usr/local/bin/brew

$ brew -v
Homebrew 0.9.5

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!

Warning: You have a curlrc file
If you have trouble downloading packages with Homebrew, then maybe this
is the problem? If the following command doesn't work, then try removing
your curlrc:
  curl http://github.com

$ brew update
Already up-to-date.

$ cat ~/.dotfiles/install/brewfile-basic
# Important early installs

install hub # https://hub.github.com
install git-extras # https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras
install bash-completion # http://bash-completion.alioth.debian.org

# Cleaning up Brew caches

linkapps
cleanup
prune

$ brew bundle ~/.dotfiles/install/brewfile-basic
Error: Unknown command: bundle

$ brew bundle
Error: Unknown command: bundle

[MikeMcQuaid]

It was deprecated and then removed recently, I'm afraid.

[ChristopherA]

Is there an issue that explains why it was deprecated?

[MikeMcQuaid]

It was one of several contributed commands that was removed because it was unused by any of the maintainers and thus unmaintained. With this one in particular it was problematic because it had a fundamentally broken API which just piped commands to Homebrew rather than using a more sensible DSL. https://github.com/andrew/brewdler would be a better alternative, I think.

[andriijas]

Just make a shell script instead that installs your stuff.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@andriijas 👍

[wangwenchao]

👍 thanks

[jonasrosland]

I've created Brewfiles and Caskfiles to use with the bundle command, but since that's now removed here's how I solved it. I'm still separating everything I want to install into files, and then using a shell script to install everything from them.

Brewfile:

## Productive stuff
zsh
zsh-completions
zsh-syntax-highlighting
git
git-flow

Caskfile:

## Standard app replacements
# Web
google-chrome
# Terminal
iterm2

Then in my bash script:

# Install brews
brew install $(cat Brewfile|grep -v "#")

# Install casks
brew cask install $(cat Caskfile|grep -v "#")

Also did a crappy workaround for Taps, the entire thing can be found here: https://github.com/virtualswede/osx-bootstrap

[yoshuawuyts]

@virtualswede sweet, thanks! :D

[MikeMcQuaid]

For anyone following this thread: this is the new official replacement built by @andrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-brewdler

[elliotthilaire]

@jonasrosland : Your comment was helpful. I've modified the command to allow for inline comments.

brew install $(cat Brewfile | sed 's/#.*//')