Is this what is meant to happen?

[pquodling]

I installed this and ran it with the brew cu -facy command line.

It goes through a whole much of stuff, about installs. About ten things to be installed - it appears to do that...

Just to be sure, I issue the command again - it should (in theory) come back with "nothing to update" or similar. Nope, it goes through and downloads and installs them all again.

Here is the tail end of what happens - and it will keep happening, as if nothing has been updated. Huh?

[pquodling]

treesheets was successfully installed! ==> Upgrading viber to latest ==> Satisfying dependencies ==> Downloading https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/Viber.dmg ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> No checksum defined for Cask viber, skipping verification ==> Installing Cask viber Warning: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/Viber.app'; overwriting. ==> Removing App '/Applications/Viber.app'. ==> Moving App 'Viber.app' to '/Applications/Viber.app'. 🍺 viber was successfully installed! ==> Upgrading window-wrangler to latest ==> Satisfying dependencies ==> Downloading http://mindflow.dk/software/windowwrangler/windowwrangler.dmg

curl: (7) Failed to connect to mindflow.dk port 80: Operation timed out Error: Download failed on Cask 'window-wrangler' with message: Download failed: http://mindflow.dk/software/windowwrangler/windowwrangler.dmg Error: Install incomplete. ==> Upgrading wireframe-sketcher to latest ==> Satisfying dependencies ==> Downloading http://wireframesketcher.com/downloads/WireframeSketcher-latest-macosx.zip ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> No checksum defined for Cask wireframe-sketcher, skipping verification ==> Installing Cask wireframe-sketcher Warning: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/WireframeSketcher.app'; overwriting. ==> Removing App '/Applications/WireframeSketcher.app'. ==> Moving App 'WireframeSketcher.app' to '/Applications/WireframeSketcher.app'. 🍺 wireframe-sketcher was successfully installed! ==> Removing cached downloads /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/dropbox--latest /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/etrecheck--latest.zip /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/google-chrome--latest.dmg /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/infinit--latest.dmg /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/joinme--latest.aspx /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/ltspice--latest.dmg /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/treesheets--latest.zip /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/viber--latest.dmg /Users/peter/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/wireframe-sketcher--latest.zip ==> This operation has freed approximately 441.2MB of disk space.

[buo]

Yes, it's normal, and it's because of -facy options:

• -f: Include apps that are marked as latest.
• -a: Include apps that auto-update in the upgrade.
• -c: Cleans up cached downloads and tracker symlinks after updating.
• -y: Update all outdated apps; answer yes to updating packages.

So the apps marked as latest will be updated(re-installed) again and again whenever you run the command.

[pquodling]

So, in order to just upgrade what needs to be updated (i.e. what is out of date), I just do a brew cu -y or possibly a -cy?

[buo]

@pquodling yes, you are right.