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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Cargo does not respect lockfiles by default, AFAIK. You need to explicitly pass the --locked flag.

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

When you cargo install a binary, it ignores lockfiles. If you clone a project and build it, it respects the Cargo.lock that was checked in.

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