How do you mark a homebrew package as a release candidate?

Question

Say a homebrew package was released for internal testing purposes. Basically a release candidate. How do I mark the homebrew package as a release candidate so that it doesn't get installed when a user tries to install the latest package? I need the latest stable package to get installed.

Answer 1

One way that I think of is to create a separate pre-release tap or formula, so that you can install that tap or formula to do the pre-release testing.

Let's say if you sue formula approach, you can have formula.rb and formula-rc.rb in the same tap. And you can brew install/test formula-rc to achieve your goal.