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Re: "brew install postgresql" failing with "no available formula for ossp-uuid"

From:

Max Howell

Date:

2011-01-12 @ 11:10

Hi Mike,


I recommend hard resetting the Library directory, provided you haven't got
any customisations in there.


cd `brew --prefix`
cd Library
git checkout .


Then check that all looks good with a `git status`.


PS thanks for being so polite! It seems a rarity on the Internet nowadays.
On Wednesday, 12 January 2011 at 02:39, Mike Stenhouse wrote:

> I'm trying to "brew install postgresql" but it's failing with "No
> available formula for ossp-uuid". A bit of poking though and there
> does seem to be a ossp-uuid formula. See the terminal output below:
> 
> ~: brew doctor
> Your OS X is ripe for brewing.
> Any troubles you may be experiencing are likely purely psychosomatic.
> ~: brew update
> From http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
> * branch master  -> FETCH_HEAD
> Already up-to-date.
> 
> ~: brew install postgresql
> Error: No available formula for ossp-uuid
> ~: brew install ossp-uuid
> Error: No available formula for ossp-uuid
> ~: brew install
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/raw/master/Library/Formula/ossp-uuid.rb
> ######################################################################## 100.0%
> ==> Downloading ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
> File already downloaded and cached to /Users/mike/Library/Caches/Homebrew
> ==> ./configure --disable-debug --without-perl --without-php
> --without-pgsql --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2
> ==> make
> ==> make install
> /usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2: 11 files, 364K, built in 27 seconds
> ~: brew install postgresql
> Error: No available formula for ossp-uuid
> 
> I have absolutely no idea where to go from here - I've tried
> everything I can think of. Any pointers much appreciated...
> 
> 

> I recommend hard resetting the Library directory, provided you haven't got
> any customisations in there.
> cd `brew --prefix`
> cd Library
> git checkout .
> Then check that all looks good with a `git status`.

Thanks. I _just_ hit on this myself after getting some pointers from
the Lazyweb. I somehow had local changes to Library. brew update was
reporting that everything was up to date but loads of formulae were
unstaged deleted. I did git reset --hard, tried the install again and
it worked. I'm mildly mystified but otherwise content. I've updated
the gist with your fix for posterity.


> PS thanks for being so polite! It seems a rarity on the Internet nowadays.

No worries. Petitioning for peoples' time and Being A Dick aren't easy
bedfellows. Thanks for the package manager!

Cheerio

Mike

On 12 January 2011 11:55, Mike Stenhouse <mike@donotremove.co.uk> wrote:
> Petitioning for peoples' time and Being A Dick aren't easy bedfellows.
+1

Print this out and stick it on the side of the internet.

Also, nice name.

-- 
Mike McQuaid
http://mikemcquaid.com

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com> wrote:

> On 12 January 2011 11:55, Mike Stenhouse <mike@donotremove.co.uk> wrote:
> > Petitioning for peoples' time and Being A Dick aren't easy bedfellows.
> +1
>
> Print this out and stick it on the side of the internet.
>
> Also, nice name.
>
> --
> Mike McQuaid
> http://mikemcquaid.com
>

But for someone to arrive at that realization is contrary to the Greater
Internet Dickwad Theory <http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/>!

-Charlie

> Print this out and stick it on the side of the internet.

I'll ask AOL to put it in their strapline so everyone sees it.


> Also, nice name.

You too.