home-brew permission issues

[ryanmerolle]

I notice anything installed by brew in post-create with a vscode devcontianer using the user vscode effects a permission denied.

[andreiborisov]

@ryanmerolle can you provide your devcontainer.json file?

[max06]

I can try to add some more info - I'm using your script in my dotfiles.

Your script requires root-permissions. Homebrew refuses to run as root.

max06@docker1:~/dotfiles$ sudo ./brew.sh 
find: ‘/var/lib/apt/lists/*’: No such file or directory
Running apt-get update...
Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease [270 kB]
... not of use
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Installing Homebrew...
Cloning into '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 224059, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (85/85), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (63/63), done.
remote: Total 224059 (delta 29), reused 43 (delta 20), pack-reused 223974
Receiving objects: 100% (224059/224059), 63.87 MiB | 21.00 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (164844/164844), done.
Cloning into '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1401562, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (302/302), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (142/142), done.
remote: Total 1401562 (delta 179), reused 277 (delta 160), pack-reused 1401260
Receiving objects: 100% (1401562/1401562), 535.75 MiB | 23.19 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (976799/976799), done.
Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported.
As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all
build scripts full access to your system.
Done!

Last 4 lines show the error. This is probably a similar issue in a devcontainer running as root.