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Command line license text generator.
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Getting "Error: Empty installation" for Homebrew install #7

Closed g12mcgov closed 8 years ago

g12mcgov commented 8 years ago

Hi there,

I was trying to install this package via Homebrew, and followed all the steps, however, on the last step where it actually installs the package, I got the following error:

==> Installing license from nishanths/tap
==> Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/license-binaries/darwin_amd64/0.1.2/license.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
Error: Empty installation

Any ideas?

nishanths commented 8 years ago

Hi @g12mcgov, thanks for reporting. Unfortunately I was unable to repro on either of my darwin_amd64 machines. Could you try installing with the verbose flag and see if that brings up any interesting info? brew install --verbose nishanths/tap/license

acjackman commented 8 years ago

Just tried installing via Homebrew (10.11.2 (15C50)) and I'm getting that same error, any suggestions?

$ brew update
$ brew install --verbose nishanths/tap/license
==> Installing license from nishanths/tap
==> Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/license-binaries/darwin_amd64/0.1.2/license.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/license-0.1.2.tar.gz
==> Verifying license-0.1.2.tar.gz checksum
tar xvf /Library/Caches/Homebrew/license-0.1.2.tar.gz
x license
Error: Empty installation
nishanths commented 8 years ago

@acjackman @g12mcgov I'm seeing the error now too. Investigating.

nishanths commented 8 years ago

With commit https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commit/915ac06db21acc5c9595b2223cc39b9672f34c4a, homebrew raises an "Empty installation" exception if it appeared that no significant files were included during install. One of the filenames that homebrew filtered out as non-significant metafiles are files named license.

As it turns out, the only file that being installed in our case is a single binary file named license. Hence the "Empty installation" exception.

I've updated the homebrew tap with a fix.

nishanths commented 8 years ago

Reinstalling

$ rm /Library/Caches/Homebrew/license-0.1.2.tar.gz  # remove cached file
$ brew update
$ brew tap nishanths/tap
$ brew install nishanths/tap/license

Verify it works:

$ license version
v0.1.2

Let me know if you run into issues :+1:

acjackman commented 8 years ago

Fixed issue for me. Thanks!