Renovate: Update all `resolutions` in package.json

[Mstrodl]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?
My project uses yarn install --flat in order to produce a smaller file size, but renovate never updates my resolutions

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like it if there were a configuration option to recreate the functionality of yarn install --flat in renovate that would allow me to choose the latest version of each conflicting dependency (think multiple packages with different versions of babel needed by each)

Describe alternatives you've considered
Technically, I could declare every resolution as a dependency so that renovate would need to update them, but this is a bad solution because it defeats the purpose of things like pnpm

Additional context
Renovate already updates resolutions for declared dependencies, just not for things that aren't listed in dependencies

[rarkins]

I wasn't aware of this requirement until now, thanks for raising it. Can you create an example public repo that includes a package.json/yarn.lock that would require updating of resolutions, so I can check it out? Simpler the better.

[Mstrodl]

@rarkins Sure! Mstrodl/renovate-resolutions-example

Resolutions key was created by using yarn install --flat and choosing the newest version of the given choices. Currently, Renovate's PRs break my CI step because there is no TTY available to ask for resolutions.

[douglasduteil]

Any news @rarkins ?

[rarkins]

If someone is interested in working on this or at least moving forward the requirements then that would be welcomed, but unfortunately otherwise I don't see our core team having time for this for quite some time.

It's quite possible that it's a really simple enhancement. e.g. can we just treat resolutions like dependencies and devDependencies without needing to understand how they're generated or how they relate to definitions within those others?

[Jerska]

can we just treat resolutions like dependencies and devDependencies without needing to understand how they're generated or how they relate to definitions within those others?

I believe you can, in which case it would just need to be added to the list of allowed depTypes for npm.

[viceice]

I'll have a look at this, cause we have resolutions at renovate too.