Downgrading instead of Upgrading

[WebVPF]

I start the update

composer update

Result

Then

php artisan winter:up

Result

Then

composer update

Result

Then

php artisan winter:up

Result

So it repeats endlessly.
This came up a few months ago.

[LukeTowers]

@WebVPF how are you defining the requirement for Winter.Blog in your composer.json?

[WebVPF]

@LukeTowers Winter.User and not Winter.Blog

{
    "name": "winter/wn-user-plugin",
    "type": "winter-plugin",
    "description": "User plugin for Winter CMS",
    "homepage": "https://github.com/wintercms/wn-user-plugin",
    "keywords": ["winter cms", "winter", "plugin", "user", "authentication"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Alexey Bobkov",
            "email": "aleksey.bobkov@gmail.com",
            "role": "Original Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Samuel Georges",
            "email": "daftspunky@gmail.com",
            "role": "Original Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Winter CMS Maintainers",
            "homepage": "https://wintercms.com",
            "role": "Maintainer"
        }
    ],
    "support": {
        "issues": "https://github.com/wintercms/wn-user-plugin/issues",
        "discord": "https://discord.gg/D5MFSPH6Ux",
        "source": "https://github.com/wintercms/wn-user-plugin"
    },
    "require": {
        "php": ">=7.2",
        "composer/installers": "~1.0"
    },
    "replace": {
        "rainlab/user-plugin": "~1.5"
    },
    "extra": {
        "installer-name": "user"
    }
}

I didn't touch this file.

[LukeTowers]

I meant in your main composer.json file for your project, what does it say for the requirement on winter/wn-user-plugin?

[WebVPF]

{
    "name": "wintercms/winter",
    "description": "Free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. Originally known as October CMS.",
    "homepage": "https://wintercms.com",
    "type": "project",
    "keywords": ["winter", "cms", "wintercms", "laravel", "cmf"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Alexey Bobkov",
            "email": "aleksey.bobkov@gmail.com",
            "role": "Original Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Samuel Georges",
            "email": "daftspunky@gmail.com",
            "role": "Original Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Luke Towers",
            "email": "wintercms@luketowers.ca",
            "role": "Lead Maintainer"
        }
    ],
    "support": {
        "issues": "https://github.com/wintercms/winter/issues",
        "docs": "https://wintercms.github.io/docs/",
        "discord": "https://discord.gg/D5MFSPH6Ux",
        "source": "https://github.com/wintercms/winter"
    },
    "require": {
        "php": "^8.0.2",
        "winter/storm": "~1.2.0",
        "winter/wn-system-module": "~1.2.0",
        "winter/wn-backend-module": "~1.2.0",
        "winter/wn-cms-module": "~1.2.0",
        "laravel/framework": "^9.1",
        "wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin": "~2.0.1",
        "webvpf/wn-darkbackend-plugin": "^1.1",
        "webvpf/wn-dashboardwidgets-plugin": "^1.1",
        "webvpf/wn-robots-plugin": "^1.0",
        "webvpf/wn-share-plugin": "^1.1",
        "webvpf/wn-simpledocs-plugin": "^1.0",
        "winter/wn-user-plugin": "^2.0",
        "winter/wn-notes-plugin": "^1.0",
        "skripteria/wn-site-search-plugin": "^2.0",
        "winter/wn-googleanalytics-plugin": "^3.0"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/Flynsarmy/wn-sociallogin-plugin"
        }
    ],
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.5.8",
        "mockery/mockery": "^1.4.4",
        "fakerphp/faker": "^1.9.2",
        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.2",
        "php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint": "^1.0",
        "dms/phpunit-arraysubset-asserts": "^0.1.0|^0.2.1",
        "flynsarmy/wn-sociallogin-plugin": "dev-master"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "@php artisan key:generate"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "@php artisan winter:version",
            "@php artisan package:discover"
        ],
        "test": [
            "phpunit --stop-on-failure"
        ],
        "lint": [
            "parallel-lint --exclude vendor --exclude storage --exclude modules/system/tests/fixtures/plugins/testvendor/goto/Plugin.php ."
        ],
        "sniff": [
            "phpcs --colors -nq --report=\"full\" --extensions=\"php\""
        ]
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "prefer-stable": true,
    "extra": {
        "merge-plugin": {
            "include": [
                "plugins/*/*/composer.json"
            ],
            "recurse": true,
            "replace": false,
            "merge-dev": false
        }
    },
    "config": {
        "allow-plugins": {
            "composer/installers": true,
            "wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin": true
        }
    }
}

[bennothommo]

The only scenario where that would occur normally would be if another plugin had a dependency on User plugin being v2.0.0. If you run composer why winter/wn-user-pugin, it'll tell you which plugins require User, as well as the root package's (ie. your project's) requirements.

[WebVPF]

I could not install the plugin, it gave the following error:

Problem 1
    - wintercms/winter is present at version 1.0.0+no-version-set and cannot be modified by Composer
    - Only one of these can be installed: winter/wn-user-plugin[v2.2.0], wintercms/winter[1.0.0+no-version-set]. They both replace rainlab/user-plugin and thus cannot coexist.
    - winter/wn-user-plugin is locked to version v2.2.0 and an update of this package was not requested.

You can also try re-running composer require with an explicit version constraint, e.g. "composer requirewinter/wn-redirect-plugin:*" to figure out if any version is installable, or "composer require winter/wn-redirect-plugin:^2.1" if you know which you need.

It helped to remove the following line from the composer.lock file

in "name": "winter/wn-user-plugin"

"replace": {
    "rainlab/user-plugin": "~1.5"
},

[mjauvin]

@WebVPF in your root composer.json, you should use the following:

Add this at the end of the "require" section:

"wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin": "dev-master"

And add this new section at the end of the composer.json file:

    "extra": {
        "merge-plugin": {
            "include": [
                "plugins/*/*/composer.json"
            ],  
            "recurse": true,
            "replace": false,
            "merge-replace": false,
            "merge-dev": false
        }   
    }

[LukeTowers]

@WebVPF you can also just change the include configuration of that section to only include the plugins that you actually want included by the merge plugin; i.e. your own custom plugins. There's a reason we switched away from including every plugin (via plugins/*/*/composer.json) in the main repo; it's not a good idea to require a plugin through the main file and then also load it in through the merge plugin.