You can ignore packages to be downloaded with the replace property of your composer.json: https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#replace That way you tell composer, that you take or took care of that package’s content on your own. This can help you to ignore a package your are sure you do not need, but it is kind of hacky. So … Read more
Purpose of the content hash As you can see in Composer\Package\Locker::getContentHash(), the content hash takes into account the following fields of composer.json: $relevantKeys = array( ‘name’, ‘version’, ‘require’, ‘require-dev’, ‘conflict’, ‘replace’, ‘provide’, ‘minimum-stability’, ‘prefer-stable’, ‘repositories’, ‘extra’, ); The only reason for the content hash to change is a change of one of the values of … Read more
Try the following command: composer clear-cache