Reinstall latest cask won't download the latest version

[linc01n]

According to this #309 (comment)

If you want to upgrade a cask you can do brew cask uninstall && brew cask install.
It works fine for cask that has version.

But if it is a latest version cask brew cask uninstall won't remove the download cache. So it will skip the download part and you will install the previous version.

Maybe when we do brew cask uninstall it should also remove the download cache?

[pavel-sakun]

Vote for this one as well. One of the following (or combination of those) may be used here:

• remove "latest" archive right after installing (bad in case of need to reinstall it later or large download size)
• keep "latest" archive but do not consider it while reinstalling if not told to do so (--use-cached-installer or something like that)
• set "latest" archive's timestamp to the one passed in "Last Modified" http header (hardly this will work in 100% of cases, i.e. with some freakily configured http/ftp servers?) and check if it changed
• add some kind of option (-f? --force-download) to force downloading

[OliverJAsh]

I'd like to vote for this one too!

[voanhduy1512]

brew cask install have the --force option but it use cached installer and just relink the app. I think it will be must better to change current --force option to redownload.

[pavel-sakun]

Yep, sounds good, --force used for "latest" cask makes it to be re-downloaded.

One more think came to my mind is that brew-cask is not using "upgrade" command which may be helpful here.

[craighurley]

+1. I arrived at this issue because I was having problems "upgrading" the application "versions" from backpixel; it too uses the "latest" archive.