How to quickly update composer packages that have been set to *?

giter

Great flarum, today I upgraded the beta-13 version of my forum to beta-15. The update was successful, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

I made a lot of mistakes in the process of updating, which were finally solved after searching.But there is still a question: how can I quickly update extensions that have been set to * composer.json package?

"flagrow/ads": "*", "flagrow/direct-links": "*", "flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics": "*", "flarum/approval": "*", "flarum/auth-github": "*", "flarum/bbcode": "*", "flarum/core": "^0.1.0", "flarum/emoji": "*", "flarum/flags": "*", "flarum/lang-english": "*", "flarum/likes": "*", "flarum/lock": "*", "flarum/markdown": "*", "flarum/mentions": "*", "flarum/nicknames": "^0.1.0@beta", ....... ....... ........

clarkwinkelmann

giter

The safest is to update one or multiple packages by listing them:

composer update <package1> <package2>

To also update the dependencies of those extensions, a flag can be used:

composer update <package> --with-all-dependencies

You can also update everything to the latest version permitted by composer.json with:

composer update

However keep in mind that if anything breaks, you will have a much harder time figuring out which extension or dependency update caused it if you updated everything at once.

If you're going to update everything at once, it's a good idea to backup composer.json and composer.lock beforehand. That way if everything is broken, you can restore those two files and run composer install to go back to the previously installed versions.

giter

clarkwinkelmann Thank you 😀