I can't uninstall or upgrade some casks due to a definition error.
F.e. if I run update or upgrade:
brew cask upgrade the-unarchiver
Error: Cask 'the-unarchiver' definition is invalid: invalid 'depends_on macos' value: ":lion"
brew cask uninstall the-unarchiver
Error: Cask 'the-unarchiver' definition is invalid: invalid 'depends_on macos' value: ":lion"
I've tried to see if there's something I can edit in the formula but I didn't find anything related to this error.
cask 'the-unarchiver' do
version '4.1.0,121:1549634528'
sha256 'ff97b168f07d084e88f48e5d1e5202445596acd6eec39685d28910ee71d3a74b'
# devmate.com/com.macpaw.site.theunarchiver was verified as official when first introduced to the cask
url "https://dl.devmate.com/com.macpaw.site.theunarchiver/#{version.after_comma.before_colon}/#{version.after_colon}/TheUnarchiver-#{version.after_comma.before_colon}.zip"
appcast 'https://updates.devmate.com/com.macpaw.site.theunarchiver.xml'
name 'The Unarchiver'
homepage 'https://theunarchiver.com/'
auto_updates true
app 'The Unarchiver.app'
zap trash: [
'~/Library/Caches/cx.c3.theunarchiver',
'~/Library/Cookies/cx.c3.theunarchiver.binarycookies',
'~/Library/Preferences/cx.c3.theunarchiver.plist',
'~/Library/Saved Application State/cx.c3.theunarchiver.savedState',
]
end
Homebrew cask developers deleted pre-maverics dependencies support due to the high maintenance overhead and it looks like they introduced a bug.
The way to fix it is to run:
/usr/bin/find "$(brew --prefix)/Caskroom/"*'/.metadata' -type f -name '*.rb' -print0 | /usr/bin/xargs -0 /usr/bin/perl -i -0pe 's/depends_on macos: \[.*?\]//gsm;s/depends_on macos: .*//g'
You can find this solution, the reason for this error and more info in: