Problem

Installing binaries using cargo install --version <version> <crate> will fail if version is yanked.

Crates can be yanked for different reasons. While some of those reasons are security related, not all are. Even for security related reasons, blocking the install of yanked tools is disruptive. Teams may need time to update CI, install scripts, systems, to be able to upgrade to a new version.

In CI systems it breaks and prevents reproducibility when versions of tools can disappear.

Proposed Solution

Add an option --allow-yanked to allow installing yanked binaries.

Or, change the --force option to allow installing yanked binaries.

Notes

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