How can I tell brew to skip trying to make calls to the Internet when installing locally?
I have downloaded the brew formula and bottle
user@host ~ % ls
wget-1.24.5.json
wget-1.24.5.rb
wget-1.24.5.ventura.bottle.tar.gz
According to the manual page man brew, you can specify the relative path to the recipe after brew install
BREW(1) brew BREW(1)
NAME
brew - The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)
SYNOPSIS
brew --version
brew command [--verbose|-v] [options] [formula] ...
...
TERMINOLOGY
formula
Homebrew package definition that builds from upstream sources
...
install formula
Install formula.
formula is usually the name of the formula to install, but it has other
syntaxes which are listed in the SPECIFYING FORMULAE section.
...
SPECIFYING FORMULAE
Many Homebrew commands accept one or more formula arguments. These
arguments can take several different forms:
The name of a formula
e.g. git, node, wget.
The fully-qualified name of a tapped formula
Sometimes a formula from a tapped repository may conflict with
one in homebrew/core. You can still access these formulae by
using a special syntax, e.g. homebrew/dupes/vim or homebrew/ver-
sions/node4.
An arbitrary file
Homebrew can install formulae from a local path. It can point to
either a formula file or a bottle. Prefix relative paths with ./
to prevent them from being interpreted as a formula or tap name.
As described in the documentation above, I execute the following
brew reinstall --verbose ./wget-1.24.5.rb
Unfortunaelty, the above command attempts to access the Internet. And when curl inevitably times-out, rather than using the bottle that’s stored in the $HOMEBREW_CACHE, it just exits due to the network failure
user@host ~ % brew reinstall --verbose ./wget-1.24.5.rb
curl: (28) Failed to connect to example.com port 9999 after 75004 ms: Couldn't connect to server
Failure while executing; `/usr/bin/env /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --user-agent Homebrew/4.2.8\ \(Macintosh\;\ Intel\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 12.7.3\)\ curl/8.4.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --fail --silent --remote-time --output /Users/runner/work/buskill-app/buskill-app/build/deps/api/formula.jws.json --location --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/4.2.8\ \(Macintosh\;\ Intel\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 12.7.3\)\ curl/8.4.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --fail --silent --compressed --speed-limit 100 --speed-time 5 https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json` exited with 28. Here's the output:
curl: (28) Failed to connect to example.com port 9999 after 75004 ms: Couldn't connect to server
user@host ~ %
How can I tell brew not to try to download formula.jws.json and instead just use the recipe that I’ve provided locally?
