Missing dependency versions after re-installing on new server

[Courtney Miles]

I have have had to recently re-install Satis on a new server. As a part of that I copied the satis.json file to the new installation and ran the build to fetch all the packages.

However, it did not download all past versions of dependencies, such that our composer.lock file wants a slightly older version of a dependency and Satis does not have it.

For example, in satis.json we have "doctrine/orm": ">=2.5", and it has downloaded all those versions. However, where doctrine/dbal is a dependency of doctrine/orm, it has only downloaded v2.9.2, v2.6.3, v2.6.0, v2.5.13, v2.5.0, and not any other version -- our composer.lock file requires v2.8.0.

I'm guessing Satis does not download all possible versions that match a dependency because that could become huge.

So is there a file from the old server that I could grab and copy to the new server to prompt it to download all the versions it previously hosted from the old server?

Note that I deliberately want to grab fresh copies of all packages, rather than copy them from the old server -- but let me know if grabbing them from the older server is the only way.

[Rob]

Can you try setting require-dependency-filter to false in your satis.json?

[Courtney Miles]

Can you try setting require-dependency-filter to false in your satis.json?

Thank you -- that grabbed them all. It has saved me from having to add explicit second-level dependencies to satis.json.

Is this an undocumented feature? I was Googling to find exactly what it did but couldn't find anything.

[Rob]

It was a change introduced a while ago, but not really documented yet (because we pretty much have no documentation at all).

[Courtney Miles]

because we pretty much have no documentation at all

I understand :D Thanks very much for your assistance.