An established Magento extension company sent me a patch to install as there was an issue with our local installation. I tried installing it with Composer but it didn’t seem to change the code in the relevant files. When I look at it I still see the same code on the lines referred to by the patch.
I installed the patch using Composer following these instructions: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/comp-mgr/patching/composer.html. I required the cweagans via command line and then added the following to composer.json
"extra": {
"magento-force": "override",
"composer-exit-on-patch-failure": true,
"patches": {
"company/modulename": {
"SUPPORT-10090": "SUPPORT-10090.patch"
}
}
}
In the command line I used this: php composer.phar update company/modulename and got
Gathering patches for root package.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Package "company/modulename " listed for update is not locked.
Is the package not being "locked" causing an issue and how would I fix it? I have already contacted them again but thought it might be something I could fix more quickly than waiting for them to get back to me. Also the patch seems to be just a couple of lines, would it be very bad of me to just copy the couple of lines into the code directly, at least temporarily - is that going to cause any issues? Thanks
