When Yii-based project doesn’t want to update, there might be missing component.
Once you add one plugin everything goes back to normal.
[root@arb-srv-01 easyforms]# composer update Running composer as root/super user is highly discouraged as packages, plugins and scripts cannot always be trusted Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev) Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages. Problem 1 - yiisoft/yii2 2.0.7 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.2.*@stable | 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable -> no matching package found. - yiisoft/yii2 2.0.7 requires bower-asset/jquery 2.2.*@stable | 2.1.*@stable | 1.11.*@stable -> no matching package found. - Installation request for yiisoft/yii2 2.0.7 -> satisfiable by yiisoft/yii2[2.0.7]. Potential causes: - A typo in the package name - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting see <https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability> for more details. Read <https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md> for further common problems. [root@arb-srv-01 easyforms]# composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin" Changed current directory to /root/.config/composer Running composer as root/super user is highly discouraged as packages, plugins and scripts cannot always be trusted Using version ^1.2 for fxp/composer-asset-plugin ./composer.json has been created Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev) - Installing fxp/composer-asset-plugin (v1.2.1) Downloading: 100% Writing lock file Generating autoload files [root@arb-srv-01 easyforms]#
Hope that helps.