Composer not using vcs version pointing to forked repo - composer-php

Question

I have seen this same error in other questions, but solutions offered are not fixing the issue for me.
I created a fork (and PR to master, the only branch) of this repo:
https://github.com/ipalaus/geonames/blob/master/composer.json
my fork is here:
https://github.com/jrmadsen67/geonames/blob/master/composer.json
(the change is to update the Laravel version dependencies)
In my projects, I am using:
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/jrmadsen67/geonames"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"laravel/framework": "4.2.*",
"ipalaus/geonames": "0.2.*"
},
However, I still get the "Your requirements could not be resolved..."
"ipalaus/geonames v0.2.0 requires illuminate/database 4.1.* ->"
You can see it is looking for 4.1 laravel components, not 4.2 as my fork is telling it.
If there is other info you require, please let me know.
TIA!

Answer 1

What I suggest is from your current master branch checkout to a new branch. Normally bug-fix etc are assumed to be on different branch. As dev-master contains the bug fix checkout to different branch from master .
git checkout -b new-branch
git push origin new-branch
In composer.json
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/jrmadsen67/geonames"
}
],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"laravel/framework": "4.2.*",
"ipalaus/geonames": "dev-new-branch"
},
Hope that help!