brew info gives error on upgraded pinned formula

[koallen]

• Ran brew update and retried your prior step?
• Ran brew doctor, fixed as many issues as possible and retried your prior step?
• If you're seeing permission errors tried running sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)?

Bug reports:

Previously, I pinned gcc since I don't wanna upgrade it. Later r is upgraded and that forced a upgrade to gcc (from 5.3.0 to 6.1.0). Just now I was trying to run brew info gcc, and I get an error saying Error: /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/5.3.0 is not a directory. This is similar to Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#46044.

I have to manually do brew unpin gcc and brew pin gcc so that I can get the correct info.

Is there some logical error in handling brew info with pinned packages?

[ilovezfs]

I cannot reproduce this issue:
https://gist.github.com/ilovezfs/84e9d7118576d73b8b1efcd29981f2ac

[ilovezfs]

Ah I can!

iMac-TMP:homebrew-core joe$ brew cleanup -n gcc
Would remove: /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/5.3.0 (1,390 files, 254.8M)
==> This operation would free approximately 254.8M of disk space.
iMac-TMP:homebrew-core joe$ brew cleanup gcc
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/5.3.0... (1,390 files, 254.8M)
==> This operation has freed approximately 254.8M of disk space.
iMac-TMP:homebrew-core joe$ brew list --pinned
gcc
iMac-TMP:homebrew-core joe$ brew info gcc
Error: /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/5.3.0 is not a directory

You ran brew cleanup :)
That is a 🐛 indeed, but one for Homebrew/brew https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

[koallen]

I was about to say that I ran brew cleanup and that might be the cause of the error.

Sorry for posting to the wrong repo. After brew changed the repo names, I mis-interpreted homebrew-core as the package manager. So should I create an issue there? (at brew)

Again, sorry about that!

[ilovezfs]

@koallen no need to apologize. yes it would be helpful if you closed this & reopened in the brew repo.

[koallen]

Opened an issue at Homebrew/brew, closing this now.