formulary: read from formula in opt prefix.

We want to prefer the newer/versioned formulae when possible but this
is preferable to a random cached formula or, worse, no formula.

This means `brew info foo` will never complain that `foo` is a missing
formula.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb
index fadd89457..25df57cdc 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formulary.rb
@@ -380,6 +380,11 @@ class Formulary
       return TapLoader.new(possible_tap_newname_formulae.first, from: from)
     end
 
+    possible_keg_formula = Pathname.new("#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/#{ref}/.brew/#{ref}.rb")
+    if possible_keg_formula.file?
+      return FormulaLoader.new(ref, possible_keg_formula)
+    end
+
     possible_cached_formula = Pathname.new("#{HOMEBREW_CACHE_FORMULA}/#{ref}.rb")
     if possible_cached_formula.file?
       return FormulaLoader.new(ref, possible_cached_formula)