brew list --cask shows symlinks of renamed packages

[yochem]

brew doctor output

Your system is ready to brew.

Verification

• My "brew doctor output" above says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update twice and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead.

brew config output

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.4.8
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: e78a0adb4f260913fffdc956cc8c20fb54109feb
Last commit: 7 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 02 Dec 10:59 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 02 Dec 10:59 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_BUNDLE_USER_CACHE: /Users/yochem/Library/Caches/bundle
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: nvim
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 4
Homebrew Ruby: 3.3.6 => /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.3.6/bin/ruby
CPU: quad-core 64-bit kabylake
Clang: 16.0.0 build 1600
Git: 2.45.0 => /usr/local/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 14.7.1-x86_64
CLT: 16.1.0.0.1.1729049160
Xcode: N/A

What were you trying to do (and why)?

List all casks available on my system (to see if some could be removed)

What happened (include all command output)?

$ brew list --cask -1
brave-browser
google-drive
hammerspoon
iterm2-beta
iterm2@beta
itsycal
logi-options+
logi-options-plus
microsoft-auto-update
microsoft-teams
monitorcontrol
spotify
telegram
utm
visual-studio-code
vlc
whatsapp

I thought, oh, I have both logi-options-plus and logo-options+ installed (same with iterm2). Better remove the former:

$ brew uninstall --cask logi-options-plus
Warning: Cask logi-options-plus was renamed to logi-options+.

Oh. I don't want to remove that one.

Let's check:

$ ls -l /usr/local/Caskroom
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-07-20  brave-browser/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  google-drive/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-11-29  hammerspoon/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 yochem admin  11 2024-07-20  iterm2-beta -> 'iterm2@beta'/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-07-20 'iterm2@beta'/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  itsycal/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-10-25  logi-options+/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 yochem admin  13 2024-09-30  logi-options-plus -> logi-options+/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  microsoft-auto-update/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  microsoft-teams/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2023-09-17  monitorcontrol/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  spotify/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  telegram/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  utm/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  visual-studio-code/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-02-18  vlc/
drwxr-xr-x 4 yochem admin 128 2024-05-09  whatsapp/

Ah, symlinks, and the brew list command probably just lists the directory.

What did you expect to happen?

brew list --cask shows exactly which casks I have installed and ignores links to the same cask.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

I'm unsure if you can still install casks with their old name, so to fake this situation:


$ brew install --cask logi-options+
$ ln -s $(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/logi-options+ $(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/sym-test
$ brew list --cask -1
logi-options+
sym-test

[yochem]

Probably need to add a symlink check here.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Probably need to add a symlink check here.

@yochem Could you try and open a pull request? This document should help and we're happy to walk you through anything else.

Thanks!