How to update a single pod without touching other dependencies

Question

I understand that the following command will update a single pod  pod update  lt podname gt   However this also updates the dependencies of other pods  pods that were not included in the update command  that you have previously installed  Is there a way to update a single pod and leave all other dependencies alone

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This is a bit of an outlier and not likely to be what the OP was dealing with, but pod update <podname> will not work in all cases if you are using a local pod on your computer.

In this situation, the only thing that will trigger pod update to work is if there is a change in the podspec file. However, making a change will also allow for pod install to work as well.

In this situation, you can just modify something minor such as the description or summary by one letter, and then you can run the install or update command successfully.

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Make sure you have the latest version of CocoaPods installed    pod update POD was introduced recently  See this issue thread for more information     pod update When you run pod update SomePodName  CocoaPods will try to find an updated version of the pod SomePodName  without taking into account the version listed in Podfile lock  It will update the pod to the latest version possible  as long as it matches the version restrictions in your Podfile   If you run pod update without any pod name  CocoaPods will update every pod listed in your Podfile to the latest version possible

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just saying   pod install - for installing new pods   pod update - for updating existing pods   pod update podName - for updating only specific pod without touching other pods   pod update podName versionNum - for updating   DOWNGRADING specific pod without touching other pods

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You can never get 100  isolation  Because a pod may have some shared dependencies and if you attempt to update your single pod  then it would update the dependencies of other pods as well  If that is ok then  tl dr use  pod update podName  Why  Read below   pod update will NOT respect the podfile lock  It will override it      pertaining to that single pod pod install will respect the podfile lock  but will try installing every pod mentioned in the podfile based on the versions its locked to  in the Podfile lock    This diagram helps better understand the differences    The major problem comes from the   gt  aka optimistic operator  Using exact versions in the Podfile is not enough Some might think that specifying exact versions of their pods in their Podfile  like pod  A    1 0 0   is enough to guarantee that every user will have the same version as other people on the team  Then they might even use pod update  even when just adding a new pod  thinking it would never risk updating other pods because they are fixed to a specific version in the Podfile  But in fact  that is not enough to guarantee that user1 and user2 in our above scenario will always get the exact same version of all their pods  One typical example is if the pod A has a dependency on pod A2     declared in A podspec as dependency  A2      gt  3 0   In such case  using pod  A    1 0 0  in your Podfile will indeed force user1 and user2 to both always use version 1 0 0 of the pod A  but   user1 might end up with pod A2 in version 3 4  because that was A2 s latest version at that time  while when user2 runs pod install when joining the project later  they might get pod A2 in version 3 5  because the maintainer of A2 might have released a new version in the meantime   That s why the only way to ensure every team member work with the same versions of all the pod on each s the computer is to use the Podfile lock and properly use pod install vs  pod update   The above excerpt was all derived from pod install vs  pod update I also highly recommend watching what does a podfile lock do

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It s 2015  So because pod update SomePod touches everything in the latest versions of cocoapods  I found a workaround   Follow the next steps    Remove SomePod from the Podfile  Run pod install   pods will now remove SomePod from our project and from the Podfile lock file    Put back SomePod into the Podfile  Run pod install again   This time the latest version of our pod will be installed and saved in the Podfile lock

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I m using cocoapods version 1 0 1 and using pod update name-of-pod works perfectly  No other pods are updated  just the specific one you enter

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To install a single pod without updating existing ones-  Add that pod to your Podfile and use   pod install --no-repo-update   To remove update a specific pod use   pod update POD NAME   Tested

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Just a small notice   pod update POD NAME   will work only if this pod was already installed  Otherwise you will have to update all of them with  pod update   command

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pod update POD NAME will update latest pod but not update Podfile lock file  So  you may update your Podfile with specific version of your pod e g pod  POD NAME      gt  2 9 0  and then use command pod install Later  you can remove the specific version naming from your Podfile and can again use pod install  This will helps to keep Podfile lock updated

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