Fetching bottles for another macos version

[jeroen]

I would like to use homebrew to create a redistributable bundle for an application: i.e. an archive that contains the installed formula + dependencies, but not the homebrew system itself.

For example, suppose I want imagemagick I could do something like:

mkdir -p bottles
HOMEBREW_CACHE="$PWD/bottles" brew fetch $(brew deps imagemagick) imagemagick

And then try to extract these but that is of course very clunky.

A few questions:

• Is is possible to brew fetch a bottle for another macos? Suppose I want to run the script above, but fetch all the bottles for arm64_big_sur while I am using catalina myself?
• Is it possible to setup an alternative Installation where the homebrew system files live in another folder than the fomula files? So that I can bootstrap a small mini homebrew intallation with only imagemagick and it's dependencies?

[SMillerDev]

I would like to use homebrew to create a redistributable bundle for an application: i.e. an archive that contains the installed formula + dependencies, but not the homebrew system itself.

That's not a supported use of homebrew, you really should just be compiling your dependencies yourself.

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Is is possible to brew fetch a bottle for another macos? Suppose I want to run the script above, but fetch all the bottles for arm64_big_sur while I am using catalina myself?

Not in that way, but you could guess the bottle URLs pretty easily.

Is it possible to setup an alternative Installation where the homebrew system files live in another folder than the fomula files? So that I can bootstrap a small mini homebrew intallation with only imagemagick and it's dependencies?

They always live in separate largely folders. I believe you can set HOMEBREW_CELLAR and HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY to override these, but I'm not sure about that.

> brew --repo
/usr/local/Homebrew
> brew --repo homebrew/core
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core

[JordanField]

Adjacent to this – I have an M1 Mac but I haven't installed arm64 Homebrew yet,

I'm trying to install GLFW for ARM. Is it possible to use Rosetta Homebrew to download and pour the arm64_big_sur bottle using the non-native version?

EDIT: worked it out [possibly, now the executable I'm compiling using glfw is being killed immediately] – arch -x86_64 brew install https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/glfw-3.3.2.big_sur.bottle.tar.gz

[SMillerDev]

I'm trying to install GLFW for ARM. Is it possible to use Rosetta Homebrew to download and pour the arm64_big_sur bottle using the non-native version?

No, because mixed dependencies make Rosetta terminate. You'll need to maintain a set of arm64 programs seperately