Where does a package's source/config etc come from?

[GeoffreyPlitt]

One of my favorite packages was updated in github, but the Homebrew target is not installing it right. The package maintainers seem to busy to update the Homebrew target, but I have some time to do it.

Where are the Homebrew package configurations stored, so that I can update it?

[tlk]

You may be looking for how to update/maintain Homebrew formulas.

The command line tool "ack", for example, has a Homebrew formula that can be found on Github here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/ack.rb and on the file system with this command: file $(brew --prefix)/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/ack.rb

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For some software Homebrew uses another concept called "Homebrew casks".

The Firefox package, for example, can be found on Github here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/firefox.rb and the same "cask" file can be located on a system with Homebrew installed by running
file $(brew --prefix)/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks/firefox.rb

See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#updating-a-cask

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(I'm not a maintainer, I have just been following the project for a bit)

[GeoffreyPlitt]

thank you!