How can i tell composer to ignore certain deps while running update?
I know i can update certain packages with:
php composer.phar update vendor/package vendor/package2
But i would like to have it the other way around by telling composer to update all except these packages.
In my case the command would be much shorter than the above, since i just want to ignore some experimental bundle.
And i dont want to delete it fully, which would probably happen, if I clear the bundle from the require list.
I think this is not possible by now.
However you can try to shorten the explicit update calls with wildcards:
php composer.phar update doctrine/*
As described here: http://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#update
But composer will ask you if you want to keep local changes if composer detects such.
The package has modified files:
D code/controller/yourFile.php
Discard changes [y,n,v,s,?]?
Also you can use the stash/apply mechanism for git repos which is featured in composer.
https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/1188
Also helpful:
Composer: Develop directly in vendor packages
Maybe it wasn't possible at that time, but nowadays you can do it like this
composer update --ignore-platform-reqs vendor/package
Related
Is there a way to composer require some/thing without actually pulling the package? In my workflow, it would hasten things if I knew a command to just check version requirements and update composer.json without actually doing anything with regard to the vendor directory.
You can use --no-update switch to avoid updating and installing new dependencies - it will only add new dependency to composer.json.
composer require --no-update symfony/symfony
But since require does not check if required package can be installed (it always pick the newest version compatible with your PHP as a constraint, without checking if it will be possible to install), this can leave composer.json in non-installable state.
It will also not update composer.lock so composer install may ignore your new dependency. So this is probably a bad idea unless you want to do something with it before you commit new composer.json.
You may try to use --dry-run switch to test what will happen after composer update - you will be able to check if composer.json is installable, but composer.lock still will be out of date.
composer update --dry-run
I've currently installed a package "watson/sitemap". Now, I want to remove it without using "composer update" since it will update other packages which I don't want.
Any help would be much appreciated.
UPDATE: Composer 2 is now out, and it seems to be smart enough to handle the recursion. You need only remove the offending package.
I recently needed to do this. Here's a real-world example. This is pretty hacky. You could script this by using Composer's PHP classes or by parsing the composer.lock file, but this is a manual process you can follow.
1. Remove the unwanted package(s)
composer remove --no-update illuminate/mail
composer update illuminate/mail
2. Look for orphaned dependencies
composer show -N | xargs -n 1 composer why | grep "There is no installed package"
Output (something like this):
There is no installed package depending on "erusev/parsedown"
There is no installed package depending on "swiftmailer/swiftmailer"
There is no installed package depending on "tijsverkoyen/css-to-inline-styles"
3. Remove orphaned dependencies
composer update erusev/parsedown swiftmailer/swiftmailer tijsverkoyen/css-to-inline-styles
4. Rinse, repeat
Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you've found all the orphans.
Clarification: If you use the --no-update flag, you won't upgrade packages... however (as of writing, early 2020) it also does not remove orphaned dependencies. You're not telling it not to "upgrade". You're telling it not to update any of the installed (composer.lock) dependencies. Big difference. This is why you have to find them and manually "update" them out of your project.
Right way:
composer remove watson/sitemap --no-update
From CLI Docs:
The remove command removes packages from the composer.json file from
the current directory.
php composer.phar remove vendor/package vendor/package2
After removing the requirements, the modified requirements will be
uninstalled.
Hack way:
Remove the entry from composer.json then run
composer update watson/sitemap
This will remove a package totally from composer.lock and /vendor
I'm not sure this is possible. To restate your question. You have watson/sitemap in your composer.json, you've executed a composer update to download the package and it's dependencies. Now you want to remove the package but leave dependent packages in place?
I'm not sure there's a good way to do this, you'll have to run composer update at some point, which will just download it again. If my interpretation is correct, maybe your solution is to just add the other packages that you need that you don't want removed when you get rid of watson/sitemap, possibly sloppy/paste it's dependencies into your composer.json file?
I use
composer remove package-name --no-update-with-dependencies
Works imho
I know that we can always install a package via command:
composer require packageA
But I don't know if you guys ever have a situation like this:
You want to install a big size package "packageB" that your teammate added to composer.json and your wifi is slow so composer would take very very long to get the packageB. Then you have an idea:
"Maybe I try get the packageB zip from my teammate via flash drive and paste
it into my project."
And you did that, the package works as expected. Wonderful!
But then, you think again:
What if now I want to do the composer update other packages in my
project?
You try:
composer update
and then, what happen is composer will get the package again because you didn't use "composer install" or "composer update" to install packageB so composer doesn't know you have it.
(Sorry for the long explanation).
So my question is:
How do we let composer know that we have the package already so composer don't re-download the package again? Or this is the behavior of composer and I must always use "composer install/update", there is no other way?
And sorry, change to another wifi or find a faster internet connection is really not what I'm looking for. And I also know that we can install the package locally (see here: How to update a single composer package?).
Thanks in advance!
If we don't want to use repositories.
In my knowledge, the only option is to update you composer.json and composer.lock. Friend give you version 1.2 to vendor? Write in exactly version in composer.json and for composer.lock, you will need data from your friend too.
Run install then.
Should check, but not download any file. Still, problem is that all required libraries by this library, could be updated - you can only write down exactly version of them in file.
As default, I think, the didn't predict scenarios for that way.
This is the only solution for you, i know should work.
Composer does use caching heavily to reduce the amount of data to download. However this does not remove the need to download the package at least once.
Basically Composer has two modes to download: --prefer-dist will try to obtain a download URL for an archive file, and --prefer-source will try to obtain a copy of the version control system being used.
Both variants put the result into Composer's cache directory.
Over time you'll collect a couple of archive files locally, which allow for quick switches back and forth between existing version downloads, and newer versions will have to be downloaded once.
Also you can clone a git repository once, and Composer will try to reuse it when updating, by simply fetching new commits and checking out the appropriate tags. This still requires to clone the repository once.
You can work around cloning the repository by manually placing it at the correct spot, either by physically putting it there, or by symlinking the correct vendor directory. You can also make Composer aware of an official copy by adding the local copy as an entry to repositories. This will add this source to the existing collection of packages available from Packagist.
My workflow for developing Symfony bundles is the following:
install Symfony
create a git repo for the new bundle, put a composer.json file in there
require the new package in the top-level composer.json, using #dev version
composer update newpackage => the package is downloaded, using git clone
work on the git clone inside vendors, committing and pushing from it
This is all fine and dandy, but seems to break in one specific case:
if I alter the 'autoload' tag of the already-installed package, it seems that Composer has a hard time taking it into account:
I tried 'composer dumpautoload', and it does nothing
I do not want to remove the composer.lock file, as I do not want other packages to be updated to a newer version, I only want to alter the autoload config of that one package
I tried removing by hand vendor/composer/installed.json, and what happened is that Composer re-downloaded all the vendors and wiped any data which happened to be in there at that moment
The same problem manifested itself when I did alter the autoload section of the package on a separate clone, pushed the changes to git and ran 'composer update mypackage' - although that might have been related to packagist not having received the ping from github.
I can of course alter by hand the composer.lock and vendor/composer/installed.json files, but that seems too hackish. It also does not gives the guarantee that user downloading the package the 1st time will see it working.
Try:
./composer.phar dumpautoload -o
It reads the composer.json files and rewrites all the autoload files which pick up the new paths.
dumpautoload uses the package information from vendor/composer/installed.json and not the individual composer.json files. You need to change the autoload info there, too.
The file installed.json is only being update when you run a
composer update
I'm trying to make composer update only newly added packages to composer.json i.e when I manually add a package dependency to the composer.json file, it should update the composer.lock file only for the new package; the rest of the packages should be at the same version as before. I tried running composer update --lock but I don't think it does what I'm trying to achieve and it took a lot of time to finish. I checked the commands on composer's documentation but can't find one to achieve my wish. Any advice or workaround will be appreciated.
Note: I'm using Laravel Forge, so there is a 2 minutes deployment limit.
In order to install only new packages with composer you should run
composer install
Because composer update will install your new packages but will update and all the other already installed packages.
You can specify the name of the package as an argument to the update command. This will perform a partial update: composer update the-package/you-want-to-update
I think your question is related to your (guessed) current workflow: To add a new package you edit the composer.json file and then run composer update - wishing to only add/update that new file.
If that is true, here is the solution:
composer require new/package will add the newest possible version (taking into account the currently installed packages) of the new package. Benefits: Only one command line, and no fiddling with JSON content.
If you already know which version you want, you could also run composer require new/package:^2.1.25#beta (or whatever version and stability level you want - this example is exaggerating a bit). If this version is incompatible with existing packages, nothing will get installed, everything will get rolled back, and you get an error message.