cargo-http-registry

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cargo-http-registry is a cargo registry allowing for quick publishing
of crates when using crates.io is just not desired.

The application can be used to host a local registry to which crates can
be published. Publishing of crates happens over a regular HTTP based API
and can be interfaced with through regular cargo publish command.
Crates are stored on the file system and no registry is necessary for
accessing them.

Usage

To set up a local registry just run cargo-http-registry and provide
a path to the registry's root directory:

$ cargo-http-registry /tmp/my-registry

The directory will be created if it does not exist and is populated as
needed.

By default, the registry will listen only locally on 127.0.0.1, but
command line options allow for overwriting this setting.

To make cargo aware of this registry, it needs to be made known in a
cargo configuration file. The registry can be access
via the local file system (by specifying the path to it) or over HTTP.
The HTTP address and port can be found in the registry's config.json
(e.g., /tmp/my-registry/config.json in the example; refer to the api
key contents).
Then open your ~/.cargo/config.toml (or a per-project configuration) and
add the following lines:

[registries]
my-registry = { index = "http://127.0.0.1:35503/git" }
# Alternatively, access it via path:
my-registry = { index = "file:///tmp/my-registry" }

Also note that for HTTP access, you will need to enable the
net.git-fetch-with-cli setting. That can be
accomplished via config.toml as well, for example by adding:

[net]
git-fetch-with-cli = true

With that, you can now publish your crates to the registry and pull them
from it.

$ cargo publish --registry my-registry
    Updating `/tmp/my-registry` index
   Packaging my-lib v0.1.0
   Verifying my-lib v0.1.0
   Compiling my-lib v0.1.0
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.09s
   Uploading my-lib v0.1.0

You can also adjust the crate to only allow publishing to a certain
registry, which will prevent accidental pushes to crates.io:

--- Cargo.toml
+++ Cargo.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 [package]
 name = "my-lib"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["Daniel Mueller <deso@posteo.net>"]
 edition = "2018"
+publish = ["my-registry"]

 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

 [dependencies]

To consume the published crate from the local registry, simply set the
registry key for the dependency:

--- Cargo.toml
+++ Cargo.toml
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ edition = "2018"

 [dependencies.my-lib]
 version = "0.1"
+registry = "my-registry"

Note that cargo-http-registry is not meant to be a cargo subcommand
and cannot be used as such.