Install directory does not have write permissions when installing via brew about mint HOT 17 CLOSED

I've update to High Sierra and can confirm the issue. I've added the following to the readme.
That should work for you. If you can think of a better solution let me know 👍

⚠️ High Sierra

If you are running High Sierra your permissions to /usr/local may have changed and you will need to run the following commands before installing Mint:

$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/mint
$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/mint

This is required so Mint can write to the /usr/local/mint directory to download and cache your builds

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Ahh interesting. I had only ever installed it via the makefile.
Is there a workaround for that?

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~/dev/projects/danger/peril add_auth_api
❯ ls /usr/local/

Caskroom   Frameworks bin        include    opt        share
Cellar     Homebrew   etc        lib        sbin       var

I think it needs to make the mint/packages dir maybe, but be wary:

~/dev/projects/danger/peril add_auth_api
❯ mkdir /usr/local/mint
mkdir: /usr/local/mint: Permission denied

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Oh I see, I'll fix that now!

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Interesting, I'm not seeing any issues when installing fresh from homebrew and with no usr/local/mint directory. What error are you getting?

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And I checked, the packages path gets created before copying anything.
What do you get when you run:

which mint

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I'm on High Sierra, which might be the issue ( could have tightened security on these folders ) - no custom homebrew setup (this install is only 2 weeks old)

~/dev/projects/danger/peril add_auth_api 6s
❯ which mint
/usr/local/bin/mint

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Ah, I'm still on Sierra. Might be it

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Could you tried running make on a checkout and see if it works?

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Looks like it's the same thing:

~/dev/projects/oss/swift
❯ git clone https://github.com/yonaskolb/mint.git
Cloning into 'mint'...
remote: Counting objects: 118, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (52/52), done.
remote: Total 118 (delta 48), reused 118 (delta 48), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (118/118), 20.28 KiB | 1.01 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (48/48), done.

~/dev/projects/oss/swift
❯ cd mint

~/dev/projects/oss/swift/mint master
❯ make
swift build --disable-sandbox -c release -Xswiftc -static-stdlib
[...]                                                        ^
Compile Swift Module 'PathKit' (1 sources)
Compile Swift Module 'MintKit' (3 sources)
Compile Swift Module 'Mint' (1 sources)
Linking ./.build/x86_64-apple-macosx10.10/release/Mint
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
cp -f .build/release/mint /usr/local/bin/mint

~/dev/projects/oss/swift/mint master 36s
❯ which mint
/usr/local/bin/mint

~/dev/projects/oss/swift/mint master
❯ mint install danger/danger-swift
🌱  Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "You don’t have permission to save the file “github.com_danger_danger-swift” in the folder “packages”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/usr/local/mint/packages/github.com_danger_danger-swift, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fab68f03a80 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=13 "Permission denied"}}

Gonna see if I can get someone to test the install on Sierra

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Got a confirmation that they had the same issue, with the same error, on high sierra

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Just got someone on Sierra to test via homebrew, and they got the same error:

🌱  Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "You don’t have permission to save the file “github.com_danger_danger-swift” in the folder “packages”." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/usr/local/mint/packages/github.com_danger_danger-swift, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fab68f03a80 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=13 "Permission denied"}}

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Wait, no it was via makefile, this was the script:

git clone https://github.com/yonaskolb/mint.git
cd mint
make

mint install danger/danger-swift

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Looks like homebrew's install script runs this type of script in the setup: https://github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/master/install#L233-L257

I think it's worth adding something like to the mint install step

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But I wouldn’t want to make sudo be required for ‘mint install’. I would just run that in the makefile otherwise, but I can understand that people might not want to run an unknown command in sudo, which is why I’ve left it as a seperate step for now.
There must be a better way though

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The other option is to cache builds in a user directory like ~/.mint or in a library directory or something

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#6 should fix this

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