From e857a8216cc72600fe4ae4d067467272d149f428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:28:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure mirror update fails if no lock file is present

---
 src/Composer/Installer.php                                | 8 +++-----
 .../Fixtures/installer/partial-update-without-lock.test   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Installer.php b/src/Composer/Installer.php
index 4a2289bd1..8058cb0b3 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Installer.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Installer.php
@@ -367,12 +367,10 @@ class Installer
             // doing a full update
         }
 
-        if ($this->updateAllowList) {
-            if (!$lockedRepository) {
-                $this->io->writeError('<error>Cannot update only a partial set of packages without a lock file present.</error>', true, IOInterface::QUIET);
+        if (($this->updateAllowList || $this->updateMirrors) && !$lockedRepository) {
+            $this->io->writeError('<error>Cannot update ' . ($this->updateMirrors ? 'lock file information' : 'only a partial set of packages') . ' without a lock file present. Run `composer update` to generate a lock file.</error>', true, IOInterface::QUIET);
 
-                return 1;
-            }
+            return 1;
         }
 
         $this->io->writeError('<info>Loading composer repositories with package information</info>');
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/partial-update-without-lock.test b/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/partial-update-without-lock.test
index 74007af7b..1738b2a84 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/partial-update-without-lock.test
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/installer/partial-update-without-lock.test
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Partial update without lock file should error
 --RUN--
 update b/unstable
 --EXPECT-OUTPUT--
-Cannot update only a partial set of packages without a lock file present.
+Cannot update only a partial set of packages without a lock file present. Run `composer update` to generate a lock file.
 --EXPECT-EXIT-CODE--
 1
 --EXPECT--