Symlink gets overwritten when PHAR is installed twice from different sources

[sebastianheuer]

$ phive install phpab
(...)
Linking phpab-1.20.0.phar to /Users/sebastian/projects/php/phive/tools/phpab

leads to the following phive.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phive xmlns="https://phar.io/phive">
  <phar name="phpab" version="*" installed="1.20.0" location="./tools/phpab"/>
</phive>

Installing phpab from GitHub afterwards:

$ phive install theseer/autoload
(...)
Linking phpab-1.22.0.phar to /Users/sebastian/projects/php/phive/tools/phpab

now the original phpab symlink has been overwritten, and phive.xml contains both entries:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phive xmlns="https://phar.io/phive">
  <phar name="phpab" version="*" installed="1.20.0" location="./tools/phpab"/>
  <phar name="theseer/autoload" version="*" installed="1.22.0" location="./tools/phpab"/>
</phive>

[sebastianheuer]

Plan of attack (not complete):

• refactor phive.xml:
  • add "method" attribute to phar nodes ("github", "alias", "url")
  • add child node to phar nodes containing source information for the method (alias name, repository url, ...)
  • phar name will be determined by the resolver, alias is only used in source information

[ThomasWeinert]

Be careful with that. Subnodes in XML should not depend on the value of an attribute in the parent node.

[sebastianheuer]

Blocked by #109