mactex repeatedly re-downloading

[FranklinChen]

The mactex formula was recently changed to not track its version and as a result a script I have that does updates by running brew cask install mactex repeatedly reinstalls mactex even though it is already up to date.

[vitorgalvao]

The title of this issue is misleading. It’s not mactex that is misbehaving.

brew cask install shouldn’t be installing something that is already installed, though (unless you give it the --force flag). brew cask list, however, is broken so the way of checking for the installation of mactex may be screwing up as well.

For now, you can try to brew cask uninstall --force mactex && brew cask install mactex and see if it fixes it, but more likely you’ll have to fix your script. The mactex cask doesn’t provide a versioned download, so there’s no way to know if your installed version is up to date or not, anyway, as of now.

All that said, it should still be versioned, so I’ll check on that.

[adidalal]

#18908