not updating .crates2.json

[ToBinio]

it seems like cargo binstall does not update the .crates2.json

I found a command that says it would update but at least for me it does not

am I doing something wrong?

using version 1.4.9

[NobodyXu]

Yes we decided not to update .crates2.json since it requires list of features enabled for the crate installed, binstall cannot provide that.

Perhaps we can simply leave the features to be empty?

[ToBinio]

just keeping the features empty sounds better to me than just not updating .crates2.json

tbh I don't even know where the feature data is used

btw, thanks for the quick response

[NobodyXu]

tbh I don't even know where the feature data is used

Yeah I'm not aware of any, perhaps it's for future extension and third-party cargo tools.

[passcod]

The problem was less the features array, which we did use to just leave empty, but these three fields:

pub profile: String,
pub target: String,
pub rustc: String,

which aren't optional as far as i could see (or they'd have been Option<String>) and we had no reasonable way to set correctly, so we used:

profile: "release",
target: fetcher.target(), // detected target or --target
rustc: "cargo-binstall 1.2.3",

but iirc that had some bad interactions elsewhere.

[NobodyXu]

Is rustc used by any tool?

Can we just set to the rustc currently installed?