Flarum won't update to Beta 6 via composer.

f0r3v3r

Hello.
I am trying to upgrade from beta 5 to beta 6.
So I disabled all of the third party plugins and tried to run:

composer update

Which ran an update on some packages, but not on flarum itself.
I tried it again and it reports:

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files

So I tried:

composer update flarum

Which reported this:

Package "flarum" listed for update is not installed. Ignoring.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files

Any idea what I could try next?

Thanks in advance...

sijad

"Flarum" itself doesn't installed by composer (it doesn't listed in composer.json) but it core does. (Flarum and Flarum's core are different repositories)

composer update update those packages which listed in composer.json only and for upgrading to Beta.6 should be enough.

f0r3v3r

sijad That is what I thought but it remains as beta5 unchanged. Whereas I thought when i revisited the forum, it would ask for the database password.
Instead it is the same beta 5 installation.

I understand this is not how this process should go. So maybe instead someone could tell me what I could try instead?

[EDIT]
So, after taking a number of approaches to get to Beta 6, they all failed, more or less.

I had taken the time to click through all of the extensions and made sure only the core extensions were enabled. So I didn't understand what was holding everything up, as everyone else seemed to note that composer update should move everything ahead.

So I went backwards and started with a fresh install, and tried importing the database in all manner of ways, other than line by line by hand, because that is just not feasible at this point.

All of that resulted in disappointment. Most of the SQL errors pointed to erroneous columns and fields, which I began to attribute to various third-party plugins. Clearly just disabling the plugins didn't correct the database in a way that migration could proceed? But that wasn't the issue, as it turns out.

Following that logic, though, I created a fresh composer install and began adding all of the third party plugins to the new Beta 6 Install, before even going to the setup page.
While doing that, I realized there was an extension that was holding up the process just by being installed (even though it was disabled - naughty!)!

$ composer require pnobbe/flarum-ext-oauth-discord
Using version ^1.0 for pnobbe/flarum-ext-oauth-discord
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Can only install one of: flarum/core[v0.1.0-beta.5, v0.1.0-beta.6].
    - Can only install one of: flarum/core[v0.1.0-beta.6, v0.1.0-beta.5].
    - Can only install one of: flarum/core[v0.1.0-beta.5, v0.1.0-beta.6].
    - pnobbe/flarum-ext-oauth-discord v1.0 requires flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.5 -> satisfiable by flarum/core[v0.1.0-beta.5].
    - Installation request for pnobbe/flarum-ext-oauth-discord ^1.0 -> satisfiable by pnobbe/flarum-ext-oauth-discord[v1.0].
    - Installation request for flarum/core (locked at v0.1.0-beta.6, required as ^0.1.0) -> satisfiable by flarum/core[v0.1.0-beta.6].


Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

So I went back to the installation I was trying to update, and removed that particular extension.

composer update went through and everything moved up to Beta 6 as expected.

Upon visiting the install, I was then asked the DB password, and everything came right back up.

TL;DR
Check to make sure there isn't any third-party plugin installed (not just disabled) preventing the update from progressing to Beta 6.

Something else I learned about composer that may have led to this result faster:

composer self-update

and:

composer diagnose

Can someone mark this as solved please?