diff --git a/stdlib/Pkg/test/repl.jl b/stdlib/Pkg/test/repl.jl
index 18a6ba67ce041..4234a16dc8e6f 100644
--- a/stdlib/Pkg/test/repl.jl
+++ b/stdlib/Pkg/test/repl.jl
@@ -277,6 +277,10 @@ temp_pkg_dir() do project_path; cd(project_path) do
         cd(joinpath(tmp, "BigProject")) do
             try
                 pushfirst!(LOAD_PATH, Base.parse_load_path("@"))
+                pkg"dev SubModule"
+                pkg"dev SubModule2"
+                pkg"add Random"
+                pkg"add Example"
                 pkg"build"
                 @eval using BigProject
                 pkg"build BigProject"
@@ -285,21 +289,21 @@ temp_pkg_dir() do project_path; cd(project_path) do
                 pkg"test SubModule2"
                 pkg"test BigProject"
                 pkg"test"
-                current_json = Pkg.API.installed()["JSON"]
+                current_example = Pkg.API.installed()["Example"]
                 old_project = read("Project.toml", String)
                 open("Project.toml"; append=true) do io
                     print(io, """
 
                     [compat]
-                    JSON = "0.16.0"
+                    Example = "0.4.0"
                     """
                     )
                 end
                 pkg"up"
-                @test Pkg.API.installed()["JSON"].minor == 16
+                @test Pkg.API.installed()["Example"].minor == 4
                 write("Project.toml", old_project)
                 pkg"up"
-                @test Pkg.API.installed()["JSON"] == current_json
+                @test Pkg.API.installed()["Example"] ==     current_example
             finally
                 popfirst!(LOAD_PATH)
             end
diff --git a/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/.gitignore b/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/.gitignore
index 346892a9d027b..a4fd8a5830756 100644
--- a/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/.gitignore
+++ b/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 deps/buildartifact
+Manifest.toml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Manifest.toml b/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Manifest.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index b76939361e5dc..0000000000000
--- a/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Manifest.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-[[Base64]]
-uuid = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"
-
-[[Compat]]
-deps = ["Base64", "Dates", "DelimitedFiles", "Distributed", "InteractiveUtils", "IterativeEigensolvers", "LibGit2", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "Markdown", "Mmap", "Pkg", "Printf", "REPL", "Random", "Serialization", "SharedArrays", "Sockets", "SparseArrays", "SuiteSparse", "Test", "UUIDs", "Unicode"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "e891dc2ba653107604985bc5ab7294d9de83630f"
-uuid = "34da2185-b29b-5c13-b0c7-acf172513d20"
-version = "0.66.0"
-
-[[Dates]]
-uuid = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
-
-[[DelimitedFiles]]
-uuid = "8bb1440f-4735-579b-a4ab-409b98df4dab"
-
-[[Distributed]]
-uuid = "8ba89e20-285c-5b6f-9357-94700520ee1b"
-
-[[InteractiveUtils]]
-uuid = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
-
-[[IterativeEigensolvers]]
-uuid = "de555fa4-b82f-55e7-8b71-53f60bbc027d"
-
-[[JSON]]
-deps = ["Compat", "Nullables", "Sockets", "Unicode"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "e2f6776e8bfd310b2ade13fba1faf99d8967d58f"
-uuid = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
-version = "0.17.2"
-
-[[LibGit2]]
-uuid = "76f85450-5226-5b5a-8eaa-529ad045b433"
-
-[[Libdl]]
-uuid = "8f399da3-3557-5675-b5ff-fb832c97cbdb"
-
-[[LinearAlgebra]]
-uuid = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
-
-[[Markdown]]
-uuid = "d6f4376e-aef5-505a-96c1-9c027394607a"
-
-[[Mmap]]
-uuid = "a63ad114-7e13-5084-954f-fe012c677804"
-
-[[Nullables]]
-deps = ["Compat"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "23258f849603ad4fed3ce7dbcb8c0658920fa5ef"
-uuid = "4d1e1d77-625e-5b40-9113-a560ec7a8ecd"
-version = "0.0.5"
-
-[[Pkg]]
-uuid = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
-
-[[Printf]]
-uuid = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
-
-[[REPL]]
-uuid = "3fa0cd96-eef1-5676-8a61-b3b8758bbffb"
-
-[[Random]]
-uuid = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
-
-[[Serialization]]
-uuid = "9e88b42a-f829-5b0c-bbe9-9e923198166b"
-
-[[SharedArrays]]
-uuid = "1a1011a3-84de-559e-8e89-a11a2f7dc383"
-
-[[Sockets]]
-uuid = "6462fe0b-24de-5631-8697-dd941f90decc"
-
-[[SparseArrays]]
-uuid = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
-
-[[SubModule]]
-path = "SubModule"
-uuid = "0d404dc8-25d6-11e8-300e-11c8e584fb95"
-version = "0.1.0"
-
-[[SubModule2]]
-path = "SubModule2"
-uuid = "2d3cad7e-26b9-11e8-3e8d-a543003d541d"
-version = "0.1.0"
-
-[[SuiteSparse]]
-uuid = "4607b0f0-06f3-5cda-b6b1-a6196a1729e9"
-
-[[Test]]
-uuid = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
-
-[[UUIDs]]
-uuid = "cf7118a7-6976-5b1a-9a39-7adc72f591a4"
-
-[[Unicode]]
-uuid = "4ec0a83e-493e-50e2-b9ac-8f72acf5a8f5"
diff --git a/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Project.toml b/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Project.toml
index adf739620e6bb..bf694f7b4adbd 100644
--- a/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Project.toml
+++ b/stdlib/Pkg/test/test_packages/BigProject/Project.toml
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ uuid = "da7e1942-2519-11e8-2822-f5508ce758f0"
 version = "0.1.0"
 
 [deps]
-JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
-Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
-SubModule = "0d404dc8-25d6-11e8-300e-11c8e584fb95"
-SubModule2 = "2d3cad7e-26b9-11e8-3e8d-a543003d541d"
 
 [targets.test.deps]
-Example = "7876af07-990d-54b4-ab0e-23690620f79a"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"