Fix spinning up local dev envs with ddev-drupal-contrib

Created on 23 April 2025, 23 days ago

Problem/Motivation

By following the setup steps defined in https://github.com/ddev/ddev-drupal-contrib the following command fails:

❯ ddev poser
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  8552  100  8552    0     0  32585      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 32517
drupalConstraint=^11
core_version=11
Writing output to composer.contrib.json
No composer.lock file present. Updating dependencies to latest instead of installing from lock file. See https://getcomposer.org/install for more information.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires drupal/search_api_autocomplete 1.x-dev -> satisfiable by drupal/search_api_autocomplete[1.x-dev (alias of dev-1.x)].
    - drupal/search_api_autocomplete dev-1.x requires drupal/search_api ^1.0 -> satisfiable by drupal/search_api[dev-1.x, 1.0.0-alpha1, ..., 1.x-dev (alias of dev-1.x)] from composer repo (https://packages.drupal.org/8) but drupal/search_api dev-8.x-1.x is the root package and cannot be modified. See https://getcomposer.org/dep-on-root for details and assistance.
    - drupal/search_api_autocomplete 1.x-dev is an alias of drupal/search_api_autocomplete dev-1.x and thus requires it to be installed too.

touch: cannot touch 'web/core/.env': No such file or directory

This is caused by the recently merged change to 8.x-1.x branch: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/search_api/-/commit/998ab169e1c9f7da0...

Steps to reproduce

Proposed resolution

Remaining tasks

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Status

Active

Version

1.0

Component

General code

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🇭🇺Hungary mxr576 Hungary

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!228Fix spinning up local dev envs with ddev-drupal-contrib
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🇭🇺Hungary mxr576
updated 23 days ago

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Issue created by @mxr576
Merge request !228Add branch alias to help Composer with dependency resolution → (Open) created by mxr576
Comment 23 days ago →
🇭🇺Hungary mxr576 Hungary
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#479941
Comment 5 days ago →
🇦🇹Austria drunken monkey Vienna, Austria
Thanks for reporting this issue and already providing an MR!
Unfortunately hard to test whether this actually works … How confident are you in your solution? Any examples of other projects where this worked/helped?
Comment 4 days ago →
🇭🇺Hungary mxr576 Hungary
I am quite confident, you do not need DDEV to reproduce this issue at all, just clone the project and try to run composer install inside the folder. It is going to fail the same way because Composer cannot resolve other dependency versions without the branch alias.

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