Overwriting an Incomplete Dependency

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Overwriting an Incomplete Dependency

If your project's analysis has finished, and you have a section in the dependencies tab titled "Incomplete Dependencies" that means FOSSA was unable to resolve, or locate, the named dependency.

This can be manually corrected by clicking the "Overwrite" button on the right-hand side of the screen and filling in the appropriate data.

You can do so, by following these steps:

1. Navigate to the dependency's homepage, and find an archive of the source files for your matching version.
   • In this example, we'll use the first incomplete dependency from our list, "tensorboard"

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     Tips

     • Using the URL is the preferred method here - it tends to be faster and will allow the incomplete dependency to become resolved for this project.
     • You can typically find a compressed version of the source from the "Releases" or "Tags" on a project's GitHub Page.
     • When using a PyPI dependency, you can also use the URL to the .whl file if no source is available.

2. Be sure to copy the description and homepage for the dependency. You'll be able to view this metadata in the FOSSA web app, and it may prove useful in the future.
3. Once you've finished your data entry, select "Overwrite" and the modal will close.
4. At this point, your page should refresh and your build should be queued:

5. In a moment, your dependency will begin analysis:

6. Once the Analysis has finished, your overwritten dependency should have been moved to the top of the dependencies list, and is denoted by a blue "Manual Dependency" tag.