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Reputation: 2808

Private composer package refuses to update

At work, I have a GitLab setup as a Git repository to host a common composer package that can and will be used across multiple sites (a symfony2 bundle for what it's worth). Not a totally uncommon practice.

I managed to configure the composer.json's to see eachother:

On the site im working on right now, I have:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "package",
        "package": {
            "name": "coresystem/tools-bundle",
            "version": "dev-master",
            "source": {
                "url": "{sorry this is private}",
                "type": "git",
                "reference": "master"
            },
            "autoload": {
                "psr-0": {
                    "CoreSystem\\ToolsBundle": "src"
                }
            }
        }
    }
]

and on the packages repository:

{
    "name": "coresystem/tools-bundle",
    "type": "symfony-bundle",
    "description": "A collection of common use tools across the network of core sites",
    "license": "DBAD",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Kyle Harrison",
            "email": "{private, sorry}"
        }
    ],
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.0",
        "symfony/framework-bundle": "~2.5"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
            "CoreSystemToolsBundle": "src/"
        }
    }
}

On the site, when I ran $ composer require coresystems/tools-bundle dev-master it worked just fine. It downloaded the repo, installed it. everything was great.

Until I needed to update the tools bundle.

I made my changes, and pushed them to the tools gitlab repo.

But on the site, when I ran $ composer update coresystems/tools-bundles it says there was nothing to update.

Out of desperation I started setting up some tags, pushing those, and trying things like $ composer update coresystems/tool-bundle 1.*@dev and such, to no avail.

In order to get it to work, i had to run $ composer remove coresystems/tools-bundle first, and then run $ composer require coresystems/tools-bundle dev-master again for it to reclone the repository

What gives?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1473

Answers (1)

Sven
Sven

Reputation: 70863

Don't use type:package as the repository description. This is too much manual work to be done, because Composer can detect everything it needs to know if you are using a supported repository (SVN, Git, Mercurial) and have committed a composer.json file into it.

Simply give Composer the location of the repository by using:

"repositories" : [
    { "type":"vcs", "url":"your private URL of the Git repo"}
]

This is all. No need to duplicate the autoload definition, or anything else that is required to be mentioned in the package description.

Upvotes: 2

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