Nightly rustfmt component missing

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Hi all,

My project's rustfmt Travis check on GitHub has recently stopped working due to an error from rustup +nightly component add rustfmt:

info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'

info: latest update on 2020-07-15, rust version 1.46.0-nightly (23744c84d 2020-07-14)

info: downloading component 'cargo'

info: downloading component 'rust-std'

info: downloading component 'rustc'

info: installing component 'cargo'

info: Defaulting to 500.0 MiB unpack ram

info: installing component 'rust-std'

info: installing component 'rustc'

error: component 'rustfmt' for target 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' is unavailable for download for channel nightly

Sometimes not all components are available in any given nightly.

Anyone know what the best way is to get nightly rustfmt features? Thanks in advance!

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It happens that nightly doesn't contain all components. Nightly breaks internal things often, and they take a few days to catch up.

Try installing an older nightly.

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Thanks @kornel. So if I don't want our Travis builds to break randomly, what should it do? Used a fixed nightly date?

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When you install nightly via rustup you can add --component complete to have it install everything, and it will find an older nightly that has everything.

I don't think there's a more precise option to make it require only rustfmt.

BTW: I hope you're not failing build on rustfmt --check: Forced rustfmt is a roadblock to contributing - tools and infrastructure - Rust Internals

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Thanks! And yes, we are failing the builds. We don't have a lot of people clamoring to contribute as is, but we will reevaluate failing the build on rustfmt if someone (anyone) tries to contribute. :smiley:

Ideally, there would be a bot that would comment on the PR saying "this isn't rustfmted, want me to commit a formatting fix?" with an @ command to fix it. I don't know of such a bot though.

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BTW I haven't been able to get the --component complete to work. What is the full command?

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Oh, it turns out the installer script names this flag differently than rustup:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- --profile complete
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