> On 9 Sep 2020, at 16:30, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> My experience with homebrew has been pretty good overall.
Homebrew is fine for use cases that don't mind it is a rolling distribution. :-(
For complex builds it is safer to lock the environment to certain known to work
versions, and homebrew cannot do this. You can disable the auto-update feature,
and keep it locked to a set of versions, but usually only within a macOS
version. After you update the system, usually you have to update homebrew.
For my production xPack builds, I simply could not use homebrew, I had to
recreate a build environment in a separate folder, with the desired versions of
the tools.
Regards,
Liviu
