Minikube: Brew Formula for Minikube

[r2d4]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one): feature request

We currently have a brew _cask_ installer, which installs from a pre-built binary. However, we can create a real brew formula for minikube now that we no longer include (and therefore don't cross build) localkube with go-bindata.

I think the formula should be pretty straightforward and would be very similar to existing go formula.

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[coolbrg]

@r2d4 , I think we can close this issue right?
I can see cask file https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/minikube.rb .

[r2d4]

Currently the cask just downloads the prebuilt binary. Now that we don't package localkube anymore, we can just build from source and have a real _brew_ formula instead of just a cask.

[ymesika]

If no one is working on creating a build formulae I can propose myself as an assignee.. Have a recent experience generating a formulae for another tool.

[tstromberg]

Still needed.

[afbjorklund]

Still needed.

Currently we ship the _same_ Linux binary everywhere: raw, tgz, deb, rpm

We might do the same for Darwin, that is leave it as a brew "cask" (binary)

[plod]

it okay if I have a crack at this?

[medyagh]

it okay if I have a crack at this?

yes you could have this issue ! :)

[commitay]

I've opened a PR for a minikube formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/45603

[tstromberg]

Before we close this, we'll need to insure that our release scripts release to brew rather than cask:

• https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/hack/jenkins/release_update_brew.sh
• https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/installers/darwin/brew-cask/minikube.rb.tmpl

@commitay @issyl0 - are either of you interested in taking a crack at updating our release scripts?

[afbjorklund]

I thought distros was supposed to pull (new releases) rather than push (from vendor) ? Especially if it is no longer our binary, but something they build. But not sure how Brew normally operates.

[issyl0]

@tstromberg I don't currently have enough spare time to help with this bigger piece of work, sorry!