custom lockfile maintenance support

[awodij]

Tell us more.

As a renovate user, it would be helpful to be able to specify custom lockfile maintenance tasks.

Today, I use a custom dependency management tool with a custom lockfile format. I use a custom regex manager which handles version upgrades well, and can tie a lockfile update during a dependency upgrade by using the postUpgradeTasks. However there doesn't seem to be a way to be able to update this lockfile when dependencies ranges don't need refreshed.

I am not familiar with the renovate source but for example something along these lines mixing concepts from customManagers + postUpgradeTasks that are currently in place would do the trick. I think this would necessitate allowing a generic command to update lock files, and could be white listed similar to how postUpgradeTasks works.

customManagers: [
    {
      customType: "lockfile",
      lockUpgradeTasks: {
         commands: ["my_tool lock"]
      }.
      fileFilters: ["my_tool.lock"],
    },
]

Also open to ideas if folks think there is a way to do this today already.

[jamietanna]

cc @secustor do you think this is something that'd work alongside #42054 perhaps? (as a follow-up piece of functionality)

[secustor]

I will take look an think about it how could accommodate that use case.

[awodij]

just wanted to poke at this one again - looks like the feature was added onto #42054 but hasn't moved in a little while. is that blocked on anything?

[jamietanna]

Like many things - it's down to time :)

The Renovate maintainers are often working on quite a few things (of which some community-reported issues take priority), and i.e. Sebastian is a maintainer who works on Renovate in his (limited!) free time

Sorry there's not been an update at this point, but it'll get added when we get around to it!