What's going on with Homebrew?

[dnrce]

Issue Description

As of 2025-10-08 there is a formula for Granted in Homebrew core: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/main/Formula/g/granted.rb

Unfortunately this formula does not create the assume script, so it is unusable following the current install instructions.

Granted's instructions for installing via Homebrew are as follows:

brew tap common-fate/granted
brew install granted

This now installs the formula from Homebrew core rather than the one from the tap, according to Homebrew precedence.

What should be done about this? Do the docs just need to be updated to install from the tap explicitly? Does the formula in the tap need to be renamed? Does the core formula need to be fixed? Removed?

The repo https://github.com/common-fate/homebrew-granted hasn't been moved to the fwdcloudsec org so whether that is still part of the ongoing project is unclear. And the contributor of the formula to Homebrew core doesn't appear to be a contributor to this repo -- this seems to be encouraged but I don't know what that means for ongoing ownership.

References:

• Formula Cookbook
• Acceptable Formulae
• Taps (Third-Party Repositories)
• How to Create and Maintain a Tap

Expected Behavior

The assume command is available in the user's $PATH.

Actual Behavior

The shell does not find the assume command:

-bash: assume: command not found

Reproduction Steps

brew tap common-fate/granted
brew install granted
assume

Granted Logs

No response

Granted Version

0.38.0

OS Version Information

macOS 15.6.1 (24G90)

Minimal Granted & AWS Config Configuration

# no config needed to reproduce

Additional Relevant Configuration

No response

I acknowledge that:

• I have reviewed the FAQ and confirm that my issue is NOT among them.
• I have searched the Granted repository (both open and closed Discussions and Issues) and confirm this is not a duplicate of an existing issue or discussion.
• I have checked the "Preview" tab on all text fields to ensure that everything looks right, and have wrapped all configuration and code in code blocks with a group of three backticks (```) on separate lines.

[chrnorm]

Thankyou for flagging this! I've raised a PR to deprecate the formula that was added to homebrew-core: Homebrew/homebrew-core#249669.

edit: repeating @jimothyGator's workaround here for folks who find this discussion due to the Homebrew issue. If you've installed the bad version from homebrew-core please run:

brew uninstall granted  # remove bad homebrew formula
brew tap common-fate/granted
brew install common-fate/granted/granted

[jimothyGator]

I've documented a temporary workaround here. It involves uninstalling the homebrew-core formula, and explicitly installing common-fated/granted. Once @chrnorm's PR is merged, that workaround will no longer be needed.

[dnrce]

Thanks @chrnorm. So is the formula in core intended to be the one recommended for use?

[chrnorm]

Yeah, once the issues are resolved with it we’ll update the docs to recommend that one for use.

The “common-fate” tap name needs to be deprecated given that the repo has been transferred to fwdcloudsec, so this helps to solve that problem too.

[dnrce]

Sounds good, thanks!

What will the process of deprecation look like? Folks who have Granted installed from the existing tap will cease to get updates (I think).

And is gdeploy, the other formula in the common-fate tap, still relevant?

[jimothyGator]

You can specify a replacement formula and/or cask when deprecating a formula. I'm not sure what Homebrew does with that info; maybe it just reports it and leaves it up to the user to choose the replacement? Or maybe it automatically upgrades to the replacement?

[chrnorm]

on gdeploy: it is no longer relevant, it was used as a deployment CLI for an archived project (https://github.com/common-fate/glide).

[chrnorm]

Updating this after some more discussion internally with fwdcloudsec folks: we'd prefer to continue using the existing tap that we maintain. I'm going to raise a new PR to homebrew-core to deprecate the formula there and will update our docs.