Homebrew fails when tapping homebrew/core

[andreasbrgmn]

It seems Homebrew has recently switched behavior when user taps the default cask homebrew/core (PR|commit). Instead of warning user, it now fails the process, which ultimately causes the step Ensure configured taps are tapped (link) to fail since homebrew/core is the default value of homebrew_taps.

Ex. output:

TASK [geerlingguy.mac.homebrew : Ensure configured taps are tapped.] **************************************************************************************************************************************
failed: [Node-1] (item=homebrew/core) => changed=false 
  ansible_loop_var: item
  item: homebrew/core
  msg: |-
    added: 0, unchanged: 0, error: failed to tap: homebrew/core due to Error: Tapping homebrew/core is no longer typically necessary.
    Add --force if you are sure you need it done.

[kalabiyau]

as a temp workaround we override homebrew_taps like here:

homebrew_taps: []

when required we feed explicit taps as vars to a task

[Guray00]

Sorry for the dumb question, where should we put that line?

[kalabiyau]

No such thing as a dumb question @Guray00 ;) we put into our top-level inventory group_var aka all.yml. Some examples you can find here

[andreasbrgmn]

as a temp workaround we override homebrew_taps like here:

homebrew_taps: []

when required we feed explicit taps to as vars to a task

Ah sweet, thanks @kalabiyau

[nqui]

as a temp workaround we override homebrew_taps like here:

homebrew_taps: []

when required we feed explicit taps as vars to a task

Hi @kalabiyau, are you running this on an apple silicon mac? On an intel mac, this override doesn't work. I've added a debug task to print the value of homebrew_taps. Even with homebrew_taps: [] set in defaults/main.yml:

TASK [geerlingguy.mac.homebrew : print homebrew_taps] *********************************
ok: [127.0.0.1] => 
  msg:
  - homebrew/core
  - homebrew/cask

TASK [geerlingguy.mac.homebrew : Ensure configured taps are tapped.] ******************
failed: [127.0.0.1] (item=homebrew/core) => changed=false 
  ansible_loop_var: item
  item: homebrew/core
  msg: |-
    added: 0, unchanged: 0, error: failed to tap: homebrew/core due to Error: Tapping homebrew/core is no longer typically necessary.
    Add --force if you are sure you need it done.
failed: [127.0.0.1] (item=homebrew/cask) => changed=false 
  ansible_loop_var: item
  item: homebrew/cask
  msg: |-
    added: 0, unchanged: 0, error: failed to tap: homebrew/cask due to Error: Tapping homebrew/cask is no longer typically necessary.
    Add --force if you are sure you need it done.

[kalabiyau]

@nqui we use both and it worked for us on both afaik