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homebrew_tap - Tap a Homebrew repository.

New in version 1.6.

Synopsis

  • Tap external Homebrew repositories.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • homebrew

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
name
required
The GitHub user/organization repository to tap.

aliases: tap
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
state of the repository.
url
(added in 2.2)
The optional git URL of the repository to tap. The URL is not assumed to be on GitHub, and the protocol doesn't have to be HTTP. Any location and protocol that git can handle is fine.
name option may not be a list of multiple taps (but a single tap instead) when this option is provided.

Examples

- homebrew_tap:
    name: homebrew/dupes

- homebrew_tap:
    name: homebrew/dupes
    state: absent

- homebrew_tap:
    name: homebrew/dupes,homebrew/science
    state: present

- homebrew_tap:
    name: telemachus/brew
    url: 'https://bitbucket.org/telemachus/brew'

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Indrajit Raychaudhuri (@indrajitr)
  • Daniel Jaouen (@danieljaouen)

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