Build-from-source formula for macOS/Linuxbrew, mirroring the Arch PKGBUILD. A Gitea workflow recomputes the tarball checksum on each version tag and syncs the formula into the homebrew-yellowjacket tap repo, so releases need no manual formula edits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# YellowJacket Homebrew formula
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The formula builds YellowJacket from source on macOS and Linuxbrew, mirroring
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the Arch `PKGBUILD`: the Wails toolchain resolves from `go.mod`'s tool
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directives and drives the frontend build itself, so the only build inputs are
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Go, Node, and pnpm.
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```
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packaging/homebrew/
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└── Formula/
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└── yellowjacket.rb ← canonical source; CI syncs it to the tap repo
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```
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## Installing
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```bash
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brew install shadow-puppet/yellowjacket/yellowjacket
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```
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`shadow-puppet/yellowjacket` is Homebrew shorthand for the tap repo
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`github.com/Shadow-Puppet/homebrew-yellowjacket`. Brew auto-taps it, so there's
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no separate `brew tap` step. To build the tip of `main` instead of the latest
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release, add `--HEAD`.
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## How publishing works
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This directory holds the **canonical** formula. The tap users install from lives
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in a **separate** repo — `homebrew-yellowjacket` — because Homebrew only
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discovers formulae from a repo whose name starts with `homebrew-`, with the
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formula at a top-level `Formula/`. Keeping it separate is also why nothing has
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to live in this repo's root.
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On every version tag (`v*`), `.gitea/workflows/homebrew-formula.yml`:
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1. downloads the GitHub release tarball for that tag,
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2. computes its `sha256`,
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3. rewrites the `version` and `sha256` lines in the formula, and
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4. commits the result to `homebrew-yellowjacket`'s `Formula/yellowjacket.rb`.
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So a normal release needs **no manual formula edits** — tag, and the tap updates
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itself. (This is the Homebrew equivalent of the Arch package's publish workflow.)
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### About the `sha256`
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Homebrew re-downloads the source tarball on each install and refuses to build
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unless its checksum matches `sha256` — integrity/tamper detection. The committed
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value here is a `REPLACE_WITH_...` placeholder on purpose; the real checksum is
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computed and injected by CI at release time, so it never has to be maintained by
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hand. (The Arch `PKGBUILD` sidesteps this with `SKIP` because it clones over git
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rather than downloading a tarball.)
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## One-time setup
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1. **Create the tap repo:** `Shadow-Puppet/homebrew-yellowjacket` on GitHub,
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with a `main` branch. It can start empty — the first tagged release seeds
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`Formula/yellowjacket.rb`.
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2. **Add a CI secret:** `HOMEBREW_TAP_TOKEN` — a GitHub token with write access
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to that repo (a fine-grained PAT scoped to `homebrew-yellowjacket`, Contents:
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read/write, is enough).
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That's it. The source repo must be public (or the tap private with an
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authenticated `brew install`) for brew to fetch the release tarball.
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## Notes
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- **License**: declared as `license :cannot_represent` (custom license). Replace
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with the correct SPDX identifier once the license is finalized.
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- **macOS vs Linux**: `wails build` produces a `YellowJacket.app` bundle on
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macOS (installed under the Cellar with an `exec` shim in `bin`) and a bare
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`yellowjacket` binary on Linux (installed to `bin`).
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- **Linuxbrew**: building on Linux additionally needs the system WebKitGTK/GTK
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stack (`webkit2gtk-4.1`, `gtk3`, `alsa-lib`) — OS packages, not Homebrew deps.
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macOS needs only the Xcode Command Line Tools.
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- **Cask alternative**: if you later ship prebuilt macOS `.dmg`/`.zip` artifacts,
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a Homebrew *cask* pointing at those installs faster than this source build.
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This formula is the source-build path.
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