I'm building a custom devcontainers file and need to add a couple of homebrew packages. In the features list, there's a homebrew-package
that
does the job. The only problem is, this only accepts one package
(there's a similar pipx-package
feature which has the same format/problem).
How can I specify this feature multiple times so that I can install multiple homebrew packages? The best I can think of is repeating the declaration, but that doesn't work for obvious reasons.
{
"features": {
"ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/homebrew-package:1": {
"package": "detect-secrets"
},
"ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/homebrew-package:1": {
"package": "markdownlint-cli"
}
}
}
tl;dr - this cannot be done.
If you want to do this, you need to create a local custom feature. This can be solved fairly elegantly by calling the package via a bash script.
As an example, the neovim-homebrew package demonstrates how to call a package from another package via the Dev Containers CLI