Do formulae with livecheck blocks automatically get updated from upstream?

[puredanger]

Recently we released a new version of Clojure (1.10.1.697) in the upstream.

• Upstream: https://github.com/clojure/homebrew-tools/blob/master/Formula/clojure.rb

The clojure formula in homebrew-core has a livecheck block looking at this:

• homebrew-core: https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/clojure.rb

I'm not sure what to expect with respect to livecheck - should this formula get automatically bumped? If so, at what frequency is it checked? Or is there something explicit to do? Just trying to figure out what my expectations should be.

Thanks...

[Rylan12]

To answer your question, livecheck does not automatically update formulae. We rely on community contributions to keep packages up to date. You're strongly encouraged to open a PR to update the clojure formula. Take a look at the docs for a guide on how to do this (brew bump-formula-pr is probably what you're looking for)

livecheck is a tool that compares the version we have to the latest upstream version. For example, running brew livecheck clojure will indicate that there is a new version available:

$ brew livecheck clojure
clojure : 1.10.1.561 ==> 1.10.1.697

There has been some discussion about creating pull requests automatically based on livecheck but this hasn't been implemented yet.

[puredanger]

thanks!

[puredanger]

I did try to find any documentation that would answer this question but I did not find it (not sure if that was a problem with my finding or in the docs).

[Rylan12]

I don't think we have any docs about livecheck (aside from the manpage entry). We do have extensive documentation about how to update our formulae, though.

Some key links:

• Updating Software in Homebrew
• Adding Software to Homebrew
• How to open a pull request
• Formula Cookbook
• homebrew/core contributing guidelines