My Project requires library A, A requires B1. B1 is broken but there is a fork B2. I want to achieve that composer will install B2 instead of B1 even if A requires B1 and not B2.
How to do that?
In a symfony project we require the following library:
"require": {
"emanueleminotto/twig-cache-bundle": "1.0.2",
}
This library requires itself another library that is currently broken:
"require": {
"asm89/twig-cache-extension": "^1.3"
},
For the broken library exists already a pull request for over 4 month but the maintainer refuses to merge it.
My question is, if it would be possible to overwrite the dependencies also for sub-dependencies, that always the patched fork would be used instead of the original one?
For the asm89/twig-cache-extension exists the following fork with fixes: https://github.com/blackandred/twig-cache-extension
I tried to add this fork to my composer.json and registered the fork explicitly under "repositories":
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/blackandred/twig-cache-extension"
}
],
and added the dependency also in my composer-json with a changed version to "dev-master":
"require": {
"asm89/twig-cache-extension": "dev-master",
"emanueleminotto/twig-cache-bundle": "1.0.2",
}
But since the emanueleminotto/twig-cache-bundle still requires the original library, composer ignores the fork and installs the original.
Anything i can do here?
I believe the docs have a good example for this scenario.
Basically you need to define an alias in your composer.json as following:
"require": {
"asm89/twig-cache-extension": "dev-master as 1.3",
"emanueleminotto/twig-cache-bundle": "1.0.2",
}
Added by the questioner:
One step was still missing: "composer update asm89/twig-cache-extension"