Error: undefined method `rebuild'

[axiac]

Today, August 26, 2016 I ran brew update followed by brew outdated to see what's new. brew update completed successfully, brew outdated (and other commands that deal with the formulas) fails.

I followed the troubleshooting directions and this is the output:

$ brew update
Already up-to-date.
$ brew update
Already up-to-date.
$ brew doctor
Error: undefined method `rebuild' for #<BottleSpecification:0x0000000246d7a8>
Please report this bug:
    https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Troubleshooting.md#troubleshooting
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-php/Formula/php56.rb:16:in `block in <class:Php56>'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/software_spec.rb:92:in `instance_eval'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/software_spec.rb:92:in `bottle'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1791:in `bottle'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-php/Formula/php56.rb:15:in `<class:Php56>'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-php/Formula/php56.rb:3:in `load_formula'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:25:in `module_eval'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:25:in `load_formula'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:42:in `load_formula_from_path'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:91:in `load_file'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:82:in `klass'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:78:in `get_formula'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:175:in `get_formula'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:215:in `factory'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:242:in `from_keg'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:225:in `from_rack'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1183:in `block in installed'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1181:in `map'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1181:in `installed'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/diagnostic.rb:907:in `check_missing_deps'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb:42:in `block in doctor'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb:34:in `each'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/doctor.rb:34:in `doctor'
/home/axiac/.linuxbrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:87:in `<main>'

brew outdated and other commands produce a (shorter but) similar error dump.

The output of the first brew update is this:

$ brew update
Updated 4 taps (homebrew/core, homebrew/dupes, homebrew/php, homebrew/versions).
==> New Formulae
homebrew/php/php70-gearman            homebrew/php/php71-oauth              homebrew/php/php71-ref                homebrew/php/php71-stats              homebrew/php/php71-timecop            homebrew/versions/go16              
homebrew/php/php70-ref                homebrew/php/php71-pcntl              homebrew/php/php71-snmp               homebrew/php/php71-swoole             homebrew/php/php71-xxtea              homebrew/versions/spidermonkey45    
homebrew/php/php70-solr               homebrew/php/php71-pspell             homebrew/php/php71-solr               homebrew/php/php71-tidy               homebrew/versions/clang-format38      homebrew/versions/srtp15            
==> Updated Formulae
homebrew/dupes/diffutils         homebrew/php/php55-solr          homebrew/php/php56-opcache       homebrew/php/php56-solr          homebrew/php/php70-opcache       homebrew/php/php71 ✔             homebrew/php/phpmyadmin        
homebrew/dupes/lapack            homebrew/php/php55-swoole        homebrew/php/php56-pcntl         homebrew/php/php56-swoole        homebrew/php/php70-pcntl         homebrew/php/php71-gmp           homebrew/versions/glfw3        
homebrew/php/brew-php-switcher   homebrew/php/php55-tidy          homebrew/php/php56-pdo-dblib     homebrew/php/php56-tidy          homebrew/php/php70-pdo-dblib     homebrew/php/php71-intl          homebrew/versions/hdf4         
homebrew/php/php53-solr          homebrew/php/php56 ✔             homebrew/php/php56-pdo-pgsql     homebrew/php/php70 ✔             homebrew/php/php70-pdo-pgsql     homebrew/php/php71-mcrypt        homebrew/versions/node4-lts    
homebrew/php/php53-swoole        homebrew/php/php56-gmp           homebrew/php/php56-pspell        homebrew/php/php70-gmp           homebrew/php/php70-pspell        homebrew/php/php71-opcache       homebrew/versions/postgresql93 
homebrew/php/php54-solr          homebrew/php/php56-intl          homebrew/php/php56-qr            homebrew/php/php70-intl          homebrew/php/php70-snmp          homebrew/php/php71-pdo-dblib   
homebrew/php/php54-swoole        homebrew/php/php56-mcrypt        homebrew/php/php56-snmp          homebrew/php/php70-mcrypt        homebrew/php/php70-tidy          homebrew/php/php71-pdo-pgsql   
==> Renamed Formulae
homebrew/versions/zeromq405 -> homebrew/versions/zeromq40
==> Deleted Formulae
homebrew/versions/valgrind36

The packages php56, php70 and php71 were updated. brew info with argument php56 or php70 fails. brew info php71 succeeds. brew upgrade with any of them as argument fails.

[rwhogg]

rebuild is the new name for a bottle revision per https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/38.

That hasn't been merged into Linuxbrew yet, but I'm working on it. Hopefully the merge should be finished by tonight.

[rwhogg]

I've finished the merge, so rebuild should now be available.

Thanks for submitting the bug report :smile:

Closing this issue, but feel free to reopen it if you still have problems.

[axiac]

It works now.

Thank you.

[archonsd]

Can we tell whether this should (still?) be affecting Mac OSX Sierra brew? The 'fix' above seems to be Linux-specific, but I have a very similar Brew Doctor output:

PasteBin console output of Brew Doctor in MacOSX Sierra

[sjackman]

This issue should not affect Mac OS Sierra. You're most likely using Homebrew for Mac rather than Linuxbrew. You may want to open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/brew