The problem: packages.WordPress.org broken
I was starting my weekly work for the WordPress maintenance support plans GraphQL plugin by the customary composer update –prefer-source -vvv command, ready to watch composer spit out some hundred lines sipping my coffee, but this time something turned out to be wrong:
[…snip…]Downloading https://packages.WordPress.org/8/WordPress/provider-2020-4%24a30289dd8394e5271… [ComposerDownloaderTransportException] The “https://packages.WordPress.org/8/WordPress/provider-2020-4%24a30289dd8394e5271bd77777bb14b361c5938656f1cddad7fae1c00d5d6ba9c6.json” file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found) […snip…]
OK, so packages.WordPress.org is down for now. How can we work around this ?read more
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