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SovietSam
SovietSam

Reputation: 91

Why bower installs latest versions of packages and not the exact ones that I want?

Having this in bower.json

{
    "name": "test",
    "dependencies": {
        "jquery": "2.2.4",
        "html5shiv": "3.6.2"
    }
}

and running

bower install

bower installing not this versions but the latest ones (jquery 3.0.0-rc1 & html5shiv 3.7.3 as for now). Why so? I don't have any other dependencies which can require the newest versions.

This is bower install log

bower cached https://github.com/jquery/jquery-dist.git#2.2.4
bower validate 2.2.4 against https://github.com/jquery/jquery-dist.git#2.2.4
bower cached https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv.git#3.6.2
bower validate 3.6.2 against https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv.git#3.6.2
bower install jquery#2.2.4
bower install html5shiv#3.6.2

jquery#2.2.4 bower_components\jquery

html5shiv#3.6.2 bower_components\html5shiv



And it's strange for me that .bower.json for html5shiv looks like this

{
  "name": "html5shiv",
  "version": "3.6.2",
  "main": [
    "dist/html5shiv.js"
  ],
  "ignore": [
    "**/.*",
    "composer.json",
    "test",
    "build",
    "src",
    "build.xml"
  ],
  "homepage": "https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv",
  "_release": "3.6.2",
  "_resolution": {
    "type": "version",
    "tag": "3.6.2",
    "commit": "f65f9b0d776ae3b88d4c7f0b27c64e384aee47aa"
  },
  "_source": "https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv.git",
  "_target": "3.6.2",
  "_originalSource": "html5shiv"
}

but bower.json looks like this

{
  "name": "html5shiv",
  "version": "3.7.3",
  "main": [
    "dist/html5shiv.js"
  ],
  "ignore": [
    "**/.*",
    "composer.json",
    "test",
    "build",
    "src",
    "build.xml"
  ]
}

The same is for jQuery. .bower.json referencing the version that I want, but bower.json referencing the latest version. And like I said, source and dist files are from the latest version.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 728

Answers (1)

ofir fridman
ofir fridman

Reputation: 2789

you should use the # before the version for example

{ 
    "name": "test",
    "dependencies": {
        "jquery": "#2.2.4"    
    }
}

You can find more about bower here

Upvotes: 0

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