homebrew cask : updating mactex

Laurent Perrinet

2015-06-12 13:36

A new version of (MacTex)[http://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html] is out, I will try today to push that new infomation to http://caskroom.io/
I will base the steps I use on this previous contribution

set-up variables

cd $(brew --prefix)/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask
github_user='meduz'
project='mactex'
git remote -v

creating a new branch for his project

git branches
git remote add $github_user https://github.com/$github_user/homebrew-cask
git checkout -b $project

finding my information and feeding to homebrew

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/CTAN/systems/mac/mactex/mactex-20150609.pkg
sha256sum mactex-20150609.pkg
sha256sum mactex-20150609.pkg | pbcopy
brew cask edit $project

testing with homebrew:

brew cask install $project
brew cask audit $project  --download

publishing results

git status
git commit -am"upgrading mactex"
git push $github_user $project

confirm the pull request

open https://github.com/$github_user/homebrew-cask

come back to the master branch
```
git checkout master
```
in the meanwhile, the change has been pulled and got approveded. MacTex is updated!