Upgrading already installed transitive dependencies for formulae in Brewfile

[rgoldberg]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.6.15
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 2a9372210add62a52171d3370e696dcff2807310
Last commit: 4 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 02 Oct 15:35 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 02 Oct 15:35 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: ["--no-quarantine"]
HOMEBREW_COLOR: set
HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 3
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: set
HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.5 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.5/bin/ruby
CPU: 3-core 64-bit dunno
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.50.1 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 26.0-arm64
CLT: 26.0.0.0.1.1757719676
Xcode: 26.0 => /Applications/Xcode_26.app/Contents/Developer
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

My PR check GHA workflow runs brew update;brew bundle upgrade to install / upgrade all the linters it uses. One of the linters depends on node. node on the macOS-26 GHA runner is out-of-date. If I do not upgrade node to the latest, the linter fails. brew bundle upgrade doesn't upgrade node unless I manually include node in my Brewfile.

Is there any way to transitively install / upgrade all dependencies of the formulae in my bootstrap Brewfile?

I don't want to run brew upgade because that would upgrade tons of formulae not used by my GHA workflow.

I don't want to manually include node or other transitive dependencies in my Brewfile, because the transitive dependencies might change, so future transitive dependencies wouldn't be automatically included in my Brewfile, or vestigial transitive dependencies might unnecessarily be installed / upgraded after they are no longer used by the formulae whose commands I actually need to use.

I've verified that no formulae have been pinned.

I currently run the following after brew bundle upgrade, which fixes the issue, but it seems overly verbose:

brew upgrade -q "${(f)$(brew deps --union "${(f)$(brew bundle list)}")}"

I specifically get the following errors on a macOS-26 GHA runner when I don't manually include node in my Brewfile:

When running markdownlint-cli2:

dyld[21857]: Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/simdjson/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib
Referenced from: <12674561-7DD5-30FE-82CA-77CDED64C8E1> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/24.8.0/bin/node

And when running yamllint

Reason: tried: '/opt/homebrew/opt/simdjson/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/homebrew/opt/simdjson/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew/opt/simdjson/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/simdjson/4.0.7/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/homebrew/Cellar/simdjson/4.0.7/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/simdjson/4.0.7/lib/libsimdjson.26.dylib' (no such file)

[daeho-ro]

node depends on simdjson and your case looks like the node is pinned for older version but simdjson is not. So simdjson is v4 but node is looking for v3. You need to upgrade node.

[rgoldberg]

@daeho-ro thanks for the reply.

I've verified that no formulae have been pinned.

I also upgrade node & all other dependencies by running:

brew upgrade -q "${(f)$(brew deps --union "${(f)$(brew bundle list)}")}"

But I think I shouldn't need to run a command other than brew bundle upgrade. Is there any option to upgrade transitive dependencies in my brew bundle upgrade call?