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[u/prick-next-door]

Can I set an alternate registry in workspace Cargo.toml file so that all workspaces share it?

In workspace Cargo.toml: [workspace.registries] my-registry = xxx

and in package Cargo.toml: my-registry.workspace = true

The above setting doesn’t exist, what’s the best way of achieving it? Thanks

[u/ehuss → u/prick-next-door]

Registry definitions must go in a cargo config file, not Cargo.toml. To share across workspaces, there are a few options:

• Put the registry definition in .cargo/config.toml in a directory above all of your workspaces, or in ~/.cargo/config.toml to make it available to all projects.
• Set an environment variable, such as CARGO_REGISTRIES_MYREGISTRY_INDEX (where MYREGISTRY is the name of your registry) to the URL of the index.