Fix macOS install for Homebrew 6.0.0 tap trust requirement#265
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Homebrew 6.0.0 refuses to load formulae from untrusted third-party taps, so `brew tap coverallsapp/coveralls && brew install coveralls` now fails with "Refusing to load formula ... from untrusted tap". Installing via the fully-qualified formula name auto-taps the repo and trusts only this formula, non-interactively. It is also backwards compatible with Homebrew < 6, unlike `brew trust`, which does not exist on older versions. Fixes #264 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
Homebrew 6.0.0 (released 2026-06-11) requires third-party taps to be explicitly trusted before their formulae are loaded (announcement, Tap Trust docs). The macOS install step previously ran:
which now fails on updated runners with:
Fixes #264
Fix
Install via the fully-qualified formula name instead:
A fully-qualified install auto-taps the repo and trusts only this formula, non-interactively — no separate
brew tapneeded. This is the approach recommended by the Tap Trust docs and the same fix ddev applied for the same break (ddev/ddev#8455).Why not
brew trust?brew trust coverallsapp/coverallsalso works, but the command doesn't exist on Homebrew < 6, so it would break runners that haven't updated yet. The fully-qualified install works on both old and new Homebrew.Workaround for users pinned to older action versions
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