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/
           


        

Answer 1

Composer seems to get confused if the package is already installed from the original repository: it fetches your local repo and refreshes composer.lock from its composer.json but doesn't even try to fetch changes into vendor directory.

Removing it first seems to address it:

composer remove foo/bar
composer require foo/bar @dev