Question

How can i tell composer to ignore certain deps while running update?

I know i can update certain packages with:

php composer.phar update vendor/package vendor/package2

But i would like to have it the other way around by telling composer to update all except these packages.

In my case the command would be much shorter than the above, since i just want to ignore some experimental bundle.
And i dont want to delete it fully, which would probably happen, if I clear the bundle from the require list.

Answer 1

I think this is not possible by now.

However you can try to shorten the explicit update calls with wildcards:

php composer.phar update doctrine/*

As described here: http://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#update

But composer will ask you if you want to keep local changes if composer detects such.

The package has modified files:
D code/controller/yourFile.php
Discard changes [y,n,v,s,?]?

Also you can use the stash/apply mechanism for git repos which is featured in composer.
https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/1188

Also helpful:
Composer: Develop directly in vendor packages