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Use `electron_config_cache` env var to search for cached downloads

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Electron docs say that one can override path to cached electron downloads via the electron_config_cache environment variable, but it doesn’t seem to be the case with electron-get - the env var is ignored and, as far as I understand, cache path is unconditionally resolved to something like $XDG_CACHE_HOME/electron/sanitazed_url/electron.zip: https://github.com/electron/get/blob/f2c625377c758c8348a5432e22a5a9ac0ef98889/src/Cache.ts#L17-L22 electron-downoad did respect electron_config_cache.

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CMCDragonkaicommented, Mar 7, 2021

The problem is this…

The electron-packager exposes a packager default export. This is used by electron-forge in the packages/api/core/src/api/package.ts.

Specifically where it calls const outputPaths = await packager(packageOpts);. Through several series of magic, it will eventually call the downloadArtifact function in @electron/get.

At no point is the cacheRoot ever acquired from an environment variable.

The packageOpts defined in packages/api/core/src/api/package.ts has no mention about download options that would specify the cacheRoot.

So currently there is no way to set the cacheRoot via an enviroment variable in the latest electron-forge.

EXCEPT…

through the forge.packagerConfig.

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CMCDragonkaicommented, Mar 7, 2021

The message above corresponds to this line: https://github.com/electron/get/blob/v1.12.4/src/index.ts#L71

We are using 1.12.4.

Which means artifactDetails.cacheRoot is undefined.

What could cause that to be undefined?

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