Limit number of MS Edge updates

[alexs77]

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HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.3.24-106-gda3b84b
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Description of issue

Is there a way to limit the number of MS Edge updates that are being done? I'm running brew update && brew upgrade daily and it seems that there's almost always an update for Edge being applied.

Eg. today: microsoft-edge 129.0.2792.52,96652cfa-be7a-458a-9f98-c30d7d3323b5 -> 129.0.2792.65,1077769e-236a-4f55-801d-2f782881fe18

I'm really not that keen to get really each and every build update (….52 to ….65). For some reason or the other, downloads of Edge are slow for me (it's not because of my network connection). And having to restart Edge is also annoying. And having to enter the password at the sudo prompt is also annoying.

I'd love to get only "minor" upgrades (if this is SemVer). Or maybe "patches". Ie. updates in the 2nd or 3rd "position".

Is this somehow possible?

$ brew update && time brew upgrade --display-times --greedy
==> Updating Homebrew...
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/portable-ruby/portable-ruby/blobs/sha256:e7340e4a1d7cc0f113686e461b93114270848cb14676e9037a1a2ff3b1a0ff32
################################################################################################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring portable-ruby-3.3.5.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
==> Updated Homebrew from 99c4716cf9 to da3b84b46a.
No changes to formulae or casks.


==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
microsoft-edge 129.0.2792.52,96652cfa-be7a-458a-9f98-c30d7d3323b5 -> 129.0.2792.65,1077769e-236a-4f55-801d-2f782881fe18
==> Upgrading microsoft-edge
==> Downloading https://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/1077769e-236a-4f55-801d-2f782881fe18/MicrosoftEdge-129.0.2792.6
Already downloaded: /Users/taaskal3/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/32e8512b9e9bfd579e993604b25963ed6bf69d10483e3f97f2fd8a3a1f1480a0--MicrosoftEdge-129.0.2792.65.pkg
==> Removing launchctl service com.microsoft.EdgeUpdater.update-internal.109.0.1518.89.system
Password:
==> Removing launchctl service com.microsoft.EdgeUpdater.update.system
==> Removing launchctl service com.microsoft.EdgeUpdater.wake.system
==> Uninstalling packages with sudo; the password may be necessary:
com.microsoft.edgemac
==> Running installer for microsoft-edge with sudo; the password may be necessary.
installer: Package name is Microsoft Edge
installer: choices changes file '/private/tmp/choices20240927-46398-588emz.xml' applied
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
==> Purging files for version 129.0.2792.52,96652cfa-be7a-458a-9f98-c30d7d3323b5 of Cask microsoft-edge
🍺  microsoft-edge was successfully upgraded!
==> Installation times
microsoft-edge          200.956 s

[p-linnane]

This is not supported. Homebrew is a rolling release package manager, where only the latest version is supported and offered. If you want to avoid this, run brew upgrade without --greedy which will skip any casks that autoupdate.