Composer update Drupal core, 8.5.1 to 8.5.2 Nothing to Install

Question

I am running Drupal 8.5.1, with php 7.2 and a new security update 8.5.2 was just released. Per the documentation, I should be able to update Drupal core with composer.

I ran the following command:

composer update drupal/core --with-dependencies

I keep getting :

Nothing to install or update Generating autoload files Drupal\Core\Composer\Composer::preAutoloadDump Drupal\Core\Composer\Composer::ensureHtaccess

Has anyone have any luck updating a drupal site with composer? I usually update my Drupal sites manually but this is getting tiring. I do not trust drush for my updates.

Answer 1

You can try to delete the vendor directory and the composer.lock file, and then run the update again.

UPDATE:

• You need to add the line "drupal/core": "~8.5.2" to the 'require' statement (or update it to whatever version you require).

• Then remove the drupal/core line from the 'replace' statement.

• Add the following line somewhere (at the end? I believe this should replace the existing repositories statement):

  "repositories": { "drupal": { "type": "composer", "url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8" } }

Then delete the vendor and composer.lock, and try again.

It should work.