'brew install osquery' is still featured on osquery downloads page
peterlewis opened this issue · comments
Howdy!
I gather from reading other issues/PRs that you no longer provide/maintain a Homebrew formula for osquery v4.x.
I've observed that at https://osquery.io/downloads/official/4.3.0 it still mentions:
We publish a stable osquery into OS X homebrew every other week. Installing using brew has several advantages: most current stable release (with additional performance guarantees). You should update brew often.
$ brew update
$ brew install osquery
$ /usr/local/bin/osqueryi
Please can I make a recommendation that this is either removed or replaced it with a reference to the Homebrew Cask that is now available?
The latter may be less-required/suitable, as all it does is install the .pkg, but still, thought I'd mention it as an option! :)
Thanks!
Peter
Thanks for following up here!
I think we still want to include guidance for those using brew. It would be awesome if you could make the change to the cask-install instructions. (If you have time.)
Happy to contribute, however I'm unsure of what the most appropriate text would be, to replace the following:
We publish a stable osquery into OS X homebrew every other week. Installing using brew has several advantages: most current stable release (with additional performance guarantees). You should update brew often.
You could simply say osquery can be installed from the Homebrew Cask repository but it is a wee bit short! :)
However, in terms of the actual installation steps, though, I believe it should simply be a case of replacing:
"brew update",
"brew install osquery",
"/usr/local/bin/osqueryi"
With:
"brew update",
"brew cask install osquery"
Also, just to mention, in terms of maintaining the cask, obviously I'm happy to (and intend to!) submit a PR to update the osquery cask when I spot a new release, but it might be worth the osquery development team adding a PR to the homebrew-cask repo, in to the workflow, as new releases become available? :)
Sorry the above is attached to the issue rather than taking the form of a PR, just wanted to get your thoughts!
Thanks,
Peter
You could simply say
osquery can be installed from the Homebrew Cask repositorybut it is a wee bit short! :)
I love this, direct and accurate!
However, in terms of the actual installation steps, though, I believe it should simply be a case of replacing ...
Ship it!
Also, just to mention, in terms of maintaining the cask, obviously I'm happy to (and intend to!) submit a PR to update the osquery cask when I spot a new release, but it might be worth the osquery development team adding a PR to the homebrew-cask repo, in to the workflow, as new releases become available? :)
Can do!
I don't know that anyone is working on making a cask recipe. Some background at Homebrew/homebrew-core#54905
I don't know that anyone is working on making a cask recipe. Some background at Homebrew/homebrew-core#54905
There exists, now a cask that can be used to install osquery via Homebrew, once more! :) I've submitted PR and once merged, I'll close this issue. Having some CLA issues, currently, though.