Composer - Forked Laravel 4.2 not installing

Question

I have cloned the Laravel 4.2 branch from Github and pushed it to a private GitLab server. I've created a new branch from 4.2 with the name dev-bugfix and added a comment in 1 file to see if composer would install my fork and not the official Laravel.

My steps:

• Cloned Laravel 4.2 branch from Github
• Pushed the repo to a private GitLab server
• In an existing Laravel application, removed composer.lock, ran composer dump-autoload and removed the entire vendor folder

• Edited composer.json to include my private repo:

  "repositories": [{
      "type": "package",
      "package": {
          "version": "dev-bugfix",
          "name": "laravel/framework",
          "source": {
              "url": "my-gitlab-repo",
              "type": "git",
              "reference": "dev-bugfix"
          }
      }
  }],
  "require": {
      "laravel/framework": "dev-bugfix",
      "barryvdh/laravel-debugbar": "~1.8"
  },
  

• Ran composer install

Composer starts with cloning my fork of Laravel-framework after which it installs a few dependencies. Then, Artisan wants to clean compiled, where it fails. Complete output click

What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to install patchwork/utf8 package.

In the require section in your composer.json add: "patchwork/utf8": "1.2.*" and then do composer update.