`cargo index`

An experimental Cargo subcommand to access and manipulate a registry index.

See reg-index for the corresponding library that implements this command's functionality.

Installation

cargo install cargo-index

This requires at a minimum Cargo 1.70.

The cargo index command provides several sub-commands:

Subcommand	Description
add	Add a package to an index.
init	Create a new index.
list	List entries in the index.
metadata	Generate JSON metadata for a package.
unyank	Un-yank a crate from an index.
validate	Validate the format of an index.
yank	Yank a crate from an index.

Run the sub-command with --help to get more information.

Example of creating an index and manually adding a new package:

cargo index init --dl https://example.com --index index

This creates a new git repository in the directory index with the appropriate config.json file.
cargo new foo

Create a sample project to add.
cd foo
cargo index add --index ../index --index-url https://example.com -- --allow-dirty

Adds the foo package to the index.
cargo index list --index ../index -p foo

Shows the JSON metadata for every version of foo in the index.