brew: `brew cleanup` fails when cask is defined in multiple taps

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$ brew config 
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 2.1.2-12-g37f4b92
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 37f4b92644a255ef76e2e1c9df686211f610e82e
Last commit: 31 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: cedba1f1b4daf1605ff985fcaa7995fe2eb0f527
Core tap last commit: 4 hours ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_DEV_CMD_RUN: 1
HOMEBREW_VISUAL: subl -w
CPU: quad-core 64-bit kabylake
Homebrew Ruby: 2.3.7 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/bin/ruby
Clang: 10.0 build 1001
Git: 2.21.0 => /usr/local/bin/git
Curl: 7.54.0 => /usr/bin/curl
Java: 11.0.3, 1.8.0_212, 1.8.0_202
macOS: 10.14.4-x86_64
CLT: 10.2.1.0.1.1554506761
Xcode: N/A
CLT headers: 10.2.1.0.1.1554506761
$ brew doctor 
Your system is ready to brew.

What you were trying to do (and why)

I added both homebrew/cask-versions and adoptopenjdk/openjdk as taps
In the past I installed adoptopenjdk8 via the adoptopenjdk tap. Now it is available in cask-versions as well.
I run the following once in a while:

brew cask upgrade
brew upgrade
brew cleanup

Because the cask adoptopenjdk8 is available in both taps, I get:

$ brew cleanup
Error: Cask adoptopenjdk8 exists in multiple taps:
  homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8
  adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8

As I installed adoptopenjdk8 initially without a tap prefix, I already ran brew cask uninstall adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8 and brew cask install adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8 afterwards. But the error persists.

Another thing I do not understand:

$ brew cask list --full-name
adoptopenjdk8
apache-directory-studio
fliqlo
knockknock
vagrant
virtualbox
virtualbox-extension-pack
adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk11

As can be seen adoptopenjdk11 is (correctly?!?) prefixed with the tap, but adoptopenjdk8 is not.

What happened (include command output)

brew cleanup fails.
Even worse it seems that even brew upgrade fails sometime, there seems to be a sort of automatic cleanup which happens after a specific amount of days:

$ brew upgrade
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/cask).
No changes to formulae.

==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
derailed/k9s/k9s 0.6.5 -> 0.6.6
==> Upgrading derailed/k9s/k9s 
==> Downloading https://github.com/derailed/k9s/releases/download/0.6.6/k9s_0.6.6_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/167596393/718b3c80-723e-11e9-82df-3ff559a7fde5?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190509%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190509T
######################################################################## 100.0%
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/k9s/0.6.6: 5 files, 39.8MB, built in 6 seconds
==> `brew cleanup` has not been run in 30 days, running now...
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/k9s/0.6.5... (5 files, 39.8MB)
Error: Cask adoptopenjdk8 exists in multiple taps:
  homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8
  adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8

What you expected to happen

I can run brew cask upgrade && brew upgrade && brew cleanup successfully.

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

I actually did not remove brew completely, but as far as I understand this should reproduce this.

brew tap homebrew/cask-versions 
brew tap adoptopenjdk/openjdk
brew cask install adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8
brew cleanup # <-- chokes

See AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk#106 as well.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 9
Comments: 17 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@MikeMcQuaid Yes, we absolutely need to fix this.

In the meantime, the issue can be worked around by removing the cached download:

rm -f ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/adoptopenjdk8* \
  ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/*-OpenJDK8*

+63

claui on May 10, 2019

@Archez, you seem to have an old tap, run brew untap caskroom/versions.

+11

reitermarkus on Aug 13, 2019

The same thing is happening for the chromedriver-beta cask as well. chromedriver exists on homebrew/cask chromedriver-beta exists on homebrew/cask-versions and caskroom/versions

What happens in my case is I just want to install chromedriver; however, the install fails when it performs the update check as I believe both packages have the same starting string, so the conflict clash happens.

$ brew cask install chromedriver
Updating Homebrew...
Error: Cask chromedriver-beta exists in multiple taps:
  homebrew/cask-versions/chromedriver-beta
  caskroom/versions/chromedriver-beta

This clash happens regardless if I run brew cask install chromedriver or brew cask install homebrew/cask/chromedriver so I essentially am unable to install this cask without removing one of the taps that contains chromedriver-beta.

Archez on Aug 13, 2019