Adamamont / composer-no-download

A composer plugin that prevents composer from downloading packages

Composer No Download Packages

This plugin prevents composer to download packages, but let him update composer.lock with correct infos.

This is useful in CI/CD pipelines, where you need to just update the composer.lock file, but you're not interested in having PHP libraries be physically installed in your /vendor folder.

Installation

composer require adamamont/composer-no-download

Use env variable COMPOSER-NO-DOWNLOAD with value "apply" for plugin activation

Example (Jenkins pipeline)

withEnv(["COMPOSER-NO-DOWNLOAD=apply"]) {
    sh "composer update"
}

Thanks @edubacco for solution