How to make packagist get the 'dist' reference for a public repo on a self-hosted gitlab instance? about packagist

[stof]

Composer will know how to use the Gitlab API to get the metadata in an optimized way and to download code archives only if the domain is in the list of configured gitlab domains (composer does not have a way to automatically detect whether a particular domain is a self-hosted gitlab instance): https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#gitlab-domains

packagist.org uses the default configuration for that, so only gitlab.com is supported as a gitlab domain but not gitlab.jdrel.com.br

Side note: the actual metadata does not have __unset as value, but rather no dist property at all. This __unset value is due to the metadata minification done using https://github.com/composer/metadata-minifier

[Davigugu55]

Alright, I see this is a composer configuration problem. Thanks for the help @stof

[stof]

Well, if you want to have the dist URLs available when using the packagist.org metadata, it would require changing the composer config used by the packagist.org servers, not your local configuration.

[Davigugu55]

That means there is no way to configure it on my side right?

I believe the workaround for this case would be creating a public repo on gitlab.com that mirrors the one on my self-hosted then.