Stripe CLI on Linux: “Error: formulae require at least a URL”

[aral]

brew gist-logs <formula> link OR brew config AND brew doctor output

Error: formulae require at least a URL
Please report this issue:
  https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:285:in `determine_active_spec'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:216:in `initialize'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:400:in `new'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:400:in `get_formula'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:572:in `get_formula'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:670:in `factory'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:322:in `resolve'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:180:in `resolve_formula'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:100:in `load_formula_or_cask'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:57:in `block in to_formulae_and_casks'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:56:in `each'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:56:in `flat_map'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:56:in `to_formulae_and_casks'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/named_args.rb:186:in `to_resolved_formulae'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/gist-logs.rb:132:in `gist_logs'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:94:in `<main>'

Verification

• My "brew doctor output" says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I have resolved all warnings from brew doctor and that did not fix my problem.
• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue and found no duplicates.

What were you trying to do (and why)?

Trying to install Stripe CLI on Fedora Linux as per the instructions at:

https://stripe.com/docs/development/quickstart:

brew install stripe/stripe-cli/stripe

What happened (include all command output)?

Error: formulae require at least a URL
Please report this issue:
  https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:285:in `determine_active_spec'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:216:in `initialize'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:400:in `new'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:400:in `get_formula'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:572:in `get_formula'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb:670:in `factory'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/parser.rb:645:in `block in formulae'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/parser.rb:641:in `map'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/parser.rb:641:in `formulae'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cli/parser.rb:317:in `parse'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:150:in `install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:94:in `<main>'

What did you expect to happen?

For it to work.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

brew install stripe/stripe-cli/stripe

[SMillerDev]

Hi Aral, love your work but we don't control stripe/stripe-cli/stripe. https://github.com/stripe/homebrew-stripe-cli does, so issues should be filed there.

[SMillerDev]

Might be good for brew to check if the formula allows your platform first, since I bet this is a common occurrence with GoReleaser generated formula.

[aral]

@SMillerDev Thanks, Sean, I’ll open an issue there.

I’m really trying to get brew working under Fedora Silverblue for me because I feel it could be the equivalent of Flatpak for CLI apps for an immutable system like that but there are a few niggles which I feel will make it harder for me to convince others to try it out. (One is with xz needing to be compiled from source which means you still need to jump into toolbox or distrobox to install via brew. If we could avoid that, brew could become the CLI package manager for Fedora. At least, that’s what I would push.) Anyway, a conversation for a different time/place, I guess :)

Update: Seems there was already a two-year-old issue on the subject: stripe/homebrew-stripe-cli#2