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Adding new fonts

To add ne fonts it's necessary to copy the .zip files to scripts/New Fonts and run the script in scripts/create-cask.sh. This will create a tmp directory with the base cask structure to be filled with the font details including:

Name: this can be obtained with the following command: fc-query --format='%{family}' '<Font Name>.ttf' (more detailed information can be found in Hombrew documentation)

Accessing tab in private repository

To access a tab that's located in a private repository you need to set the environment variable HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN the following command should be used (as documented here):

export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=<API_TOKEN>

The token can be created in GitHub's developer settings here or the following URL can be used:

https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=gist,repo,workflow&description=Homebrew

Accessing resources in private GitHub repositories

After much research the definitive method to make this works is as follows:

You should use the URL format as documented here which is as follows:

https://<TOKEN>@raw.githubusercontent.com/<OWNER>/<REPO>/<BRANCH>/<PATH TO FILE>

So far I've found 4 different strategies none of which I manage to get to work. The strategies are as follows:
  1. Including the Font binaries as part of the repository and changing the url to be a local file:
cask 'XXXX' do
...
  url "file://#{ENV['HOMEBREW_PREFIX']}/Homebrew/Library/Taps/...."
...
end

This strategy seems to be the only one working right now, however it has some disadvantages:

  • Has two copies of the font locally
  • Requires the download of the whole repository instead of just the fonts you want
  • The fonts have to be in the same repository as the cask
  1. Including an Authorization token as a header of the URL request as explained here:
cask 'XXXX' do
...
  url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/....",
      header : "Authorization: token #{ENV['HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN']}"
...
end
  1. Including the token as part of the URL:
cask 'XXXX' do
...
  url "https://#{ENV['HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN']}@github.com/...."
...
end
  1. Changing the Formula as explained in here. It involves downloading some code into the cask and importing it as part of the Formula (like this: require "#{@cask.tap.path}/lib/custom_download_strategy"), which is not working since I don't have control over the Formula.