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Packagist.org is the public Composer repository for all open-source PHP packages.</p> <p>When you add an open-source dependency to your project Composer fetches its metadata, its description, a list of versions, its requirements, and more from Packagist.org, but the code can come from any URL on the web, which the maintainer chose.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="page__section"> <div class="row"> <div class="small-12 medium-8 columns"> <h2 id="installing-packages-from-packagistorg"> Installing packages from Packagist.org </h2> <p><strong>Packagist.org only collects and serves package metadata.</strong> Most importantly the names of packages, their respective dependencies and the location of their source code. Once Composer resolved the set of dependencies it writes out the <em>composer.lock</em> file containing all metadata for versions of packages that need to be installed. Composer then downloads every package listed in <em>composer.lock</em>. For each package <strong>Composer</strong> either <strong>downloads</strong> a <strong>distribution file</strong> (zip or tar) or <strong>clones</strong> the respective <strong>version control system</strong> (git, hg or svn) <strong>defined by the package maintainer</strong>. By default it selects a distribution file for every tagged release, you can modify Composer’s preference with the <code>--prefer-source</code> and <code>--prefer-dist</code> options.</p> <p>This means that <strong>installing open-source packages from Packagist.org relies on the respective package maintainers’ source code hosting to be up and running whenever you run <em>composer install</em></strong>. Most of the time that’s GitHub but it may be any other service or even hosted by the package maintainer themselves. Packagist.org doesn’t handle building archives, storing or distributing the package source code.</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="marketing__separator"> <div class="page__section"> <div class="row"> <div class="small-12 medium-8 columns"> <h2 id="removing-the-single-point-of-failure-for-installs"> Removing the single point of failure for installs </h2> <p>When using Composer with <strong>Private Packagist, Composer will store two download locations</strong> for every package in your composer.lock: the Private Packagist mirror URL and the original download URL. Composer will download the Private Packagist mirror of distribution files which gives you <strong>faster downloads</strong>. But more importantly <strong>even if GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab or an open-source maintainers self-hosted version control system are down, <em>composer install</em> can still install your dependencies!</strong> So if you rely on <em>composer install</em> in your build process it no longer depends on these services being available. But better yet, since Composer stores both URLs this <strong>protects you from any Private Packagist downtime too!</strong> There is <strong>no longer any single point of failure</strong>.</p> <p>Further, mirroring gives you a copy of all dependencies your production system requires, so even <strong>if an open-source maintainer deletes their project</strong> you can safely switch to a new package at your own pace, because <strong>Composer can still install it</strong> from your Private Packagist repository until you remove it, too.</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="marketing__separator"> <div class="page__section"> <div class="row"> <div class="small-12 medium-8 columns"> <h2 id="mirrored-repositories-on-private-packagist"> Mirrored Repositories on Private Packagist </h2> <p>When you create a new organization on Private Packagist, it is <strong>automatically set up to mirror</strong> all your dependencies from the open-source package archive <strong>Packagist.org</strong>. But you can mirror any number of public or private repositories, e.g. the Drupal package repository or Magento Marketplace (see “<a href="./../docs/mirror-magento-marketplace">Mirroring Magento Marketplace Packages</a>”).</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="marketing__separator"> <div class="page__section"> <div class="row"> <div class="small-12 medium-6 columns"> <p>By default packages are automatically mirrored and added to your Private Packagist repository the first time they are accessed through composer update. Automated systems using Private Packagist access tokens cannot mirror new packages to ensure that build processes do not have unintended consequences.</p> </div> <div class="small-12 medium-6 columns"> <img src="/img/features/mirroring-composer-packages/packagist-mirror.png" class="marketing__img marketing__screenshot" alt="Packagist.org Mirroring"> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="marketing__separator"> <div class="page__section"> <div class="row"> <div class="small-12 medium-6 columns"> <p>You can configure the mirroring policy on a per-repository basis. For example you can ensure new open-source dependencies are discussed or reviewed before they are manually added by an administrator, making them available to all developers in the organization.</p> </div> <div class="small-12 medium-6 columns"> <img src="/img/features/mirroring-composer-packages/packagist-mirror-edit.png" class="marketing__img marketing__screenshot" alt="Packagist.org Mirroring"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section-gray"> <div class="row columns"> <p class="text-center"> Do you have any questions or are you missing anything? 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