composer require keep unbounded constraint

[henri9813]

When i run
composer require symfony/console

My composer.json got a new line which correspond to this package, but the version is unbounded,

 "symfony/console": "*",

How can i get fixed version ? ( example: ^4.1 etc.. )

Regards

[Pierstoval]

You do not need it when using Flex, because the version constraint for Symfony packages is in the extra.symfony.require composer option.

[soullivaneuh]

@Pierstoval We especially don't want this option, that's why we removed it.

But composer still require an unbound constraint.

[nicolas-grekas]

Hello, wrong repo: constraints are set on this one: https://github.com/symfony/skeleton
But the constraints are bounded, thanks to the extra.symfony.require line in
https://github.com/symfony/skeleton/blob/master/composer.json#L59

[soullivaneuh]

Hello @nicolas-grekas,

I'm not sure it's related to the skeleton. Constraint are indeed bounded thanks to the extra.symfony.require option.

The issue we have is we removed this option and composer require symfony/package still add un unbound constraint instead of searching for the last stable one.

As the option resolving is related to flex, isn't that the good place for this issue?

[stof]

Well, if you remove the Flex-specific constraint, you are left with normal composer constraints.

What Flex does is filter out the available versions based on extra.symfony.require when reading Packagist metadata. It does not do special things in the solver.
Btw, this Flex feature does not require using a * constraint for your requirement (you only need to make sure that your extra.symfony.require constraint gives you some versions matching your requirement)

[nicolas-grekas]

composer require symfony/console
My composer.json got a new line which correspond to this package, but the version is unbounded,
"symfony/console": "*",

OK, this is Flex doing it, reopening :)

[nicolas-grekas]

fixed in #435