Dotbot brew plugin

Plugin for dotbot that adds brew, cask, tap, brewfile, and services directives. It allows installation of packages using Homebrew on macOS and Linux. The cask directive is only supported on macOS. If brew is not installed, it will be automatically installed and configured.

Installation

Just add it as submodule of your dotfiles repository.

git submodule add https://github.com/d12frosted/dotbot-brew.git

Modify your install script, so it automatically enables brew plugin.

"${BASEDIR}/${DOTBOT_DIR}/${DOTBOT_BIN}" -d "${BASEDIR}" --plugin-dir dotbot-brew -c "${CONFIG}" "${@}"

Usage

Directives

Directive	Description	Platform
brew	Install packages via brew install	macOS, Linux
cask	Install applications via brew install --cask	macOS only
tap	Add Homebrew taps	macOS, Linux
brewfile	Install packages from Brewfile(s)	macOS, Linux
services	Start services via brew services start	macOS, Linux

Example

In your install.conf.yaml use brew directive to list all packages to be installed using brew. The same works with cask, tap, brewfile, and services. For example:

- brewfile:
    - Brewfile
    - brew/Brewfile

- tap:
    - homebrew/services

- brew:
    - git
    - git-lfs
    - ripgrep

- brew: [gnupg, jq]

- cask: [vlc, firefox]

- services: [postgresql, redis]

Support

If you enjoy this project, you can support its development via GitHub Sponsors or Patreon.