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Wouldn't switching to ARM break all currently installed brew packages and virtualization using VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox?
by nodesocket 7y ago
Wouldn't switching to ARM break all currently installed brew packages and virtualization using VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox?
- saagarjha 7y agoYes, unless they add binary translation, which would fix the first case.
- catblast 7y agouhh.. most brew shit is built from source, for which prebuilt binaries are often available. You’d just brew as usual building from source or prebuilt arm packages would be provided as usual.
- saagarjha 7y ago> Wouldn't switching to ARM break all currently installed brew packages (Emphasis mine.) Most Homebrew programs are not installed from source; and they'll require recompilation for the new architecture by the Homebrew team and a reinstall of all packages (to fetch the new packages) to work.
- mcphage 7y agoIf you’re switching to an ARM Mac, it’ll be a brand new machine; there won’t be any currently installed brew packages.
- saagarjha 7y agoI think a lot of people use Migration Assistant or Time Machine when setting up a new Mac.
- mcphage 7y agoI've used Migration Assistant, but I don't think it carried over brew packages. Does Time Machine?
- nodesocket 7y agoWhenever I buy a new Mac, I restore from Time Machine. A few hours later my machine is exactly like the previou machine.
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- catblast 7y agoYou probably wouldn’t migrate usr/bin across architectures? Just reinstall brew packages for the correct architecture.