CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bower
pyronaur
pyronaur

Reputation: 3545

How to update scripts with bower?

I've created an issue/question about this on Github but it didn't receive any attention, except just more people wondering the same thing, so I decided to try my luck on StackOverflow.

Q: How do you update your bower ?

My problem:
I had Packery 1.0.6 Installed and when I ran bower update it just scanned the directories and didn't update anything at all.

Then I edited the bower.json file and removed Packery 1.0.6 from dependencies and ran:

bower install packery

That confused bower a little, and it asked me which version I wanted - I selected 1.1.2 and now I have 1.1.2.

Why didn't it update to 1.1.2 in the first place ? How can I trust Bower that I have the latest version of everything installed ?

On top of that, running bower update packery doesn't work as well. I thought bower is supposed to be the magical package manager that takes out the hassle of keeping my packages up to date, but as it turns out - it doesn't do much besides installing new packages...

Upvotes: 3

Views: 775

Answers (1)

Kelly J Andrews
Kelly J Andrews

Reputation: 5111

Bower will automatically install your packages with the notation ~x.x.x. It's based on Semantic Versioning and it's package notation.

It doesn't update everything, because it will respect your app's requirements. In your case:

~1.0.6 := >=1.0.6-0 <1.1.0-0

The change from the ~1.0 to ~1.1 could potentially be breaking, and Bower is not willing to update you package unless you are ok with it. Consider it more of a protection.

If you have your bower.json file set as

>= 1.0.6

It should get you nothing less than 1.0.6.

Check out the ranges section on this page.

Upvotes: 4

Related Questions