cargo install should check if binary isn't installed/outdated before downloading crate and it shouldn't fail otherwise

[I60R]

Currently with cargo:

$ cargo install cargo-pkgbuild         # I have it already installed                                                                                                                                                                            
    Updating crates.io index
  Downloaded cargo-pkgbuild v0.1.1
  Downloaded 1 crates (717.7 KB) in 10.13s
  Installing cargo-pkgbuild v0.1.1
error: binary `cargo-pkgbuild` already exists in destination as part of `cargo-pkgbuild v0.1.1 (/home/igor/Rust/cargo-pkgbuild)`
Add --force to overwrite

This exits with 101 error code. But for me it seems that downloading crate and issuing an error here doesn't make any sense.

E.g. rustup has expected behavior:

$ rustup component add clippy              # It's also installed
info: component 'clippy' for target 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' is up to date

This exits with 0.

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Just failed into that on CI setup and wondered why this problem exists at all

[k-nasa]

I'll take this task, is it ok❓

[dwijnand]

Sure! Btw, I recently discovered https://crates.io/crates/cargo-ensure-installed which seems to be the workaround for this.

[k-nasa]

OK! Thank you

[colindean]

I encountered this just now while setting up a new project that needed a few cargo-provided binaries to be available as a part of a make task. I'd love to see this built into cargo install as an option, perhaps --ensure or something like that.

[ehuss]

Pinging anyone following this issue, I have a proposal to add upgrade functionality to cargo install at #6667. If you have any comments, I would appreciate if you can leave some over on that issue.