Important fixes to the update command.

- Update command now correctly process passed packages
- Fix packages in which the name couldn't be correctly extracted from the remote URL
- Add --force flag, just like the install command

README.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ To clean the cache:
 
 Several packages can be cleaned at the same time.
 To clean the entire cache, just call `bower cache-clean` without any names.
-Also, the install command has a `--force` flag that tells bower to bypass the cache and always fetch remote sources.
+Also, both the install and update commands have a `--force` flag that tells bower to bypass the cache and always fetch remote sources.
 
 You can disable colors by using the `--no-color` flag.
 

lib/commands/cache-clean.js

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ var removePkg = function (pkg, emitter, next) {
   var folder = path.join(config.cache, pkg);
 
   fs.exists(folder, function (exists) {
-    if (!exists) return emitter.emit('error', new Error(pkg + ' is not cached'));
+    if (!exists) return emitter.emit('error', new Error('Unable to process ' + pkg + ' (does it exists?)'));
 
     rimraf(folder, function (err) {
       if (err) emitter.emit('error', err);

lib/commands/update.js

@@ -15,34 +15,47 @@ var Manager = require('../core/manager');
 var install = require('./install');
 var help    = require('./help');
 
-var shorthand   = { 'h': ['--help'] };
-var optionTypes = { help: Boolean };
+var shorthand   = { 'h': ['--help'], 'f': ['--force'] };
+var optionTypes = { help: Boolean, force: Boolean };
 
-module.exports = function (argv, options) {
-  var manager = new Manager;
+module.exports = function (names, options) {
+  var manager = new Manager([], { force: options.force });
   var emitter = new Emitter;
 
   manager.on('data',  emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'data'));
   manager.on('error', emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'error'));
 
-  var installURLS = function (err, urls) {
-    var installEmitter = install(urls, options);
-    installEmitter.on('data',  emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'data'));
-    installEmitter.on('error', emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'error'));
-    installEmitter.on('end',   emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'end'));
+  var installURLS = function (err, arr) {
+    var mappings = {},
+        urls = [];
+
+    _.each(arr, function (info) {
+      urls.push(info.url);
+      mappings[info.url] = info.name;
+    });
+
+    options.endpointNames = mappings;
+
+    // By default the manager will guess the name of the package from the url
+    // But this leads to problems when the package name does not match the one in the url
+    // So the manager now has an option (endpointNames) to deal with this
+    manager = new Manager(urls, options);
+    manager.on('data',  emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'data'));
+    manager.on('error', emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'error'));
+    manager.on('install',   emitter.emit.bind(emitter, 'end'));
+    manager.resolve();
   };
 
   manager.once('resolveLocal', function () {
-    var packages = {};
-
-    _.each(manager.dependencies, function (value, name) {
-      packages[name] = value[0];
-    });
+    names = names.length ? _.uniq(names) : null;
 
-    var urls = async.map(_.values(packages), function (pkg, next) {
+    async.map(_.values(manager.dependencies), function (pkgs, next) {
+      var pkg = pkgs[0];
       pkg.once('loadJSON', function () {
         pkg.once('fetchURL', function (url) {
-          next(null, url + (pkg.json.commit && pkg.json.version === '0.0.0' ? '' : '#~' + pkg.version));
+          if (pkg.json.commit && pkg.json.version === '0.0.0') url += '';
+          else url += '#' + ((!names || names.indexOf(pkg.name) > -1)  ? '~' : '') + pkg.version;
+          next(null, { url: url, name: pkg.name });
         }).fetchURL();
       }).loadJSON();
     }, installURLS);

lib/core/manager.js

@@ -76,8 +76,10 @@ Manager.prototype.resolveEndpoints = function () {
   // Add to depedencies array
   // Prune & install
 
+  var endpointNames = this.opts.endpointNames || {};
+
   async.forEach(this.endpoints, function (endpoint, next) {
-    var name = path.basename(endpoint).replace(/(\.git)?(#.*)?$/, '');
+    var name = endpointNames[endpoint] || path.basename(endpoint).replace(/(\.git)?(#.*)?$/, '');
     var pkg  = new Package(name, endpoint, this);
     this.dependencies[name] = this.dependencies[name] || [];
     this.dependencies[name].push(pkg);