bunfig.toml: doesn't respect install.cache.dir

[sequencerr]

What version of Bun is running?

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What platform is your computer?

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What steps can reproduce the bug?

I didn't use install.sh script. Installed to bun binary to different directory from ~/.bun/bin/bun.

bunfig.toml: doesn't respect install.cache.dir
also [install]\n auto = "force" creates local node_modules directory. not sure about other config parameters, didn't test.

What is the expected behavior?

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What do you see instead?

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Additional information

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[vktrl]

It ignores CLI flags as well.

$ cat bunfig.toml                                                                               
[install.cache]
dir = "./custom-cache"

$ bun --cache-dir='./custom-cache' pm cache                                
/Users/vktrl/.bun/install/cache

$ uname -psmr
Darwin 23.5.0 arm64 arm

$ bun --revision
1.1.22-canary.96+df33f2b2a

[ragavpr]

Duplicate of #6423

Can confirm this issue, with (1.1.26+0a37423ba Arch)
this simple config file is automatically read and applied when in

• $HOME/.bunfig.toml
• $cwd/bunfig.toml (current working dir)

For testing purposes, an invalid registry URL is written in config, it is used and does fail as expected.
Yet still install.cache.dir is ignored.

[install]
registry = "https://registry.invalid.local"

[install.cache]
dir = "/somedir/.bun/install/cache"

Current workaround

• Just symlinked the default ~/.bun dir to my required location (/somedir/.bun) in a different volume (still ext4), confirmed that hardlinks still do work in that same volume.
• After the fix, symlink can be removed and the required location can be directly used as cache.

[sequencerr]

closing as duplicate