Config-help: update CircleCI orb when available

[piotr-s-brainhub]

My current renovate.json:

{
  "commitMessagePrefix": "[renovate] ",
  "groupName": "all dependencies",
  "labels": [
    "renovate"
  ],
  "npmToken": "<redacted>",
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "packagePatterns": [
        "^@dmx/"
      ],
      "schedule": "at any time"
    }
  ],
  "rangeStrategy": "bump",
  "schedule": "before 3am on the first day of the month"
}

I want to:

• update @dmx/ packages when available
• update other NPM packages only once a month (but if they're updated in a PR updating a @dmx/ package, is OK)
• update CircleCI orb version when available
• update other docker dependencies (Node.js, MongoDB, Redis...) only once a month

My .circleci/config.yml starts with:

version: 2.1
orbs:
  dmx_base: dmx-io/[email protected]

And I want this orbs.dmx_base to be updated each time when a new version is published.

I guess I can type something like that in renovate.json:

  "docker": {
    "schedule": "at any time"
  },

But I don't know how to specify only orb to be published at any time. I cannot find such an example in https://renovatebot.com/docs/configuration-options/ .

[piotr-s-brainhub]

Btw. please let me know if the payments for the renovate app in dmx-io organization are configured properly.

Currently I see this:

[rarkins]

You should be able to do it with one extra packageRule:

{
  "commitMessagePrefix": "[renovate] ",
  "groupName": "all dependencies",
  "labels": [
    "renovate"
  ],
  "npmToken": "<redacted>",
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "packagePatterns": [
        "^@dmx/"
      ],
      "schedule": "at any time"
    },
    {
      "managers": [
        "orb"
      ],
      "schedule": "at any time"
    }
  ],
  "rangeStrategy": "bump",
  "schedule": "before 3am on the first day of the month"
}

[piotr-s-brainhub]

@rarkins

I tried this and renovate created an issue:

There is an error with this repository's Renovate configuration that needs to be fixed. As a precaution, Renovate will stop PRs until it is resolved.

File: renovate.json
Error type: The renovate configuration file contains some invalid settings
Message: packageRules: You have included an unsupported manager in a package rule. Your list: orb. Supported managers are: (ansible, bazel, buildkite, bundler, cargo, circleci, composer, docker-compose, dockerfile, github-actions, gitlabci, gomod, gradle, gradle-wrapper, kubernetes, maven, meteor, npm, nuget, nvm, pip_requirements, pip_setup, pipenv, terraform, travis).

[rarkins]

Sorry! I mixed up manager and datasource there (orb is a datasource, not manager). For now, you'll need to replace orb with circleci in the rule I gave, although that will mean any non-orb Docker images will also get updated immediately too.

[piotr-s-brainhub]

@rarkins

Thanks. Now it works. However it would be nice to provide a feature to specify config for only the orb.

[rarkins]

You can raise a feature request in the main repo to include datasources as a selector in packageRules

[piotr-s-brainhub]

@rarkins

I created this https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/3359 feature request.