Using a fork that also needs a requirement packaged to be forked

[Luís Gonçalves]

Hi,

I have this issue, i need to fork a package so i can update the PHP requirement to allow v8. But there is a caveat, this package also has a package as requirement that needs to have PHP updated to v8 as well.

I tried to use the same logic that i have in my local composer.json project in the parent fork, but it didnt work and it gave me an error. Not an expert on this matter :)

I did something like this:

In my local composer.json project:

"require": {

    "something/special": "dev-php8"

},

"repositories": [

    {

        "type": "vcs",

        "url": "https://github.com/something/special"

     }

]

And inside the composer.json of something/special i have the same logic:

"require": {

    "something/other-special": "dev-php8"

},

"repositories": [

    {

        "type": "vcs",

        "url": "https://github.com/something/other-special"

     }

]

Error from composer:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
  Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires something/special dev-php8 -> satisfiable by something/special[dev-php8].
    - something/special dev-php8 requires something/other-special dev-php8 -> found something/other-special[dev-master, 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2] but it does not match the constraint.

My question is, what is best way to solve this?

Thanks,

Luís

[Jordi Boggiano]

You can use this to allow other-special to be installed in dev version from your root project:

"require": {

    "something/special": "dev-php8" ,

    "something/other-special": "@dev"

},

"repositories": [

    {

        "type": "vcs",

        "url": "https://github.com/something/special"

     }

]

Or alternatively you can set minimum-stability:dev and prefer-stable:true - but this is less targetted.

Best,
Jordi

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[Luís Gonçalves]

Thanks Jordi :)

I managed to solve it a while ago, but i did in the same way +- like you suggested, and it worked. Just added the other repo to the require in my composer.json and it worked.

I did this in my composer.json:

"require": {

    "something/special": "dev-php8",

    "something/other-special": "dev-php8"

},

"repositories": [

    {

        "type": "vcs",

        "url": "https://github.com/something/special"

     },

    {

        "type": "vcs",

        "url": "https://github.com/something/other-special"

     }

]