Can't get composer "path" repository to work

Question

I have a directory structure like so:

composer.json < Main   packages/     balunker/       testpackage/         composer.json < Package         src/           TestPackage.php 

The main composer.json looks like this:

{     "name": "vagrant/composer-test",     "repositories": [         {              "type": "path",             "url": "packages/*/*"         }     ],     "require": {         "balunker/testpackage": "*"     } } 

While the package composer.json looks like so:

{   "name": "balunker/testpackage",   "autoload": {     "psr-4": {       "Balunker\\": "src/"     }   } } 

On composer update I simple get a message that the package could not be resolved. No symlinks are created and no package is installed. I have literally spent half of my day figuring this out, without any success.

I also uploaded a composer update -vvv verbose output of this: http://pastebin.com/mMRHsACk.

My composer version is the latest (as of 20th of April 2016 at 2:39pm UTC) and all of this is running inside Vagrant (Debian).

ANY recommendation from hereon is greatly appreciated. I really don't know what else to do any more.

Answer 1

I posted the issue on Github as well and it turns out that the documentation is a little misleading. It says:

{     "repositories": [         {             "type": "path",             "url": "../../packages/my-package"         }     ],     "require": {         "my/package": "*"     } } 

However, if you just have a local repo without releases, you have to use:

{     "repositories": [         {             "type": "path",             "url": "../../packages/my-package"         }     ],     "require": {         "my/package": "dev-master"     } } 

The version dev-master is the key here (given that you are working on the master branch). This was mildly infuriating, but thanks to some helpful composer contributors, I could finally get a grip on this.

I hope this may help somebody in the future.

Good luck!