How to apply extends "group:monorepos" and "group:recommended" only to a certain update type?

[distor-sil3nt]

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37.289.1 (2024-04-12)

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Hi support team,

In our project we are using the preset config:recommended which includes the group presets group:monorepos and group:recommended. My goal is to apply these group presets only to major updates and use my custom group packageRules for patch and minor updates types. Since the monorepo and recommended group presets seem to be more specific than the packageRules groups I defined for patch and minor updates, they seem to override my packageRules settings. My rules settings are simply ignored as most packages are already addessed by the preset group settings.

Is there any way to only apply those preset groups to the major update type?

I tried something like this in .renovaterc.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": ["config:recommended", ":semanticCommitTypeAll(build)"],
  "ignorePresets": ["group:monorepos", "group:recommended"],
  "labels": ["Renovate"],
  "lockFileMaintenance": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "rangeStrategy": "bump",
  "semanticCommits": "enabled",
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchUpdateTypes": ["major"],
      "extends": ["group:monorepos", "group:recommended"]
    },
    {
      "groupName": "Patch Updates",
      "groupSlug": "patch-updates",
      "matchUpdateTypes": ["patch"],
      "autoApprove": true,
      "automerge": true
    },
    {
      "groupName": "Minor Updates",
      "groupSlug": "minor-updates",
      "matchUpdateTypes": ["minor"]
    }
  ]
}

But this gives me the error that ignoreDeps which is defined in the presets group:monorepos and group:recommended cannot be used inside package rules together with matchUpdateTypes.

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Logs

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

Location: `.renovaterc.json` Error type: The renovate configuration file contains some invalid settings Message: packageRules\[0\]: packageRules cannot combine both matchUpdateTypes and ignoreDeps. Rule: {"matchUpdateTypes":\["major"\],"extends":\["group:monorepos","group:recommended"\]}

[RahulGautamSingh]

There is an existing issue for this case: #31986

We haven't gotten time to look at it, though.

You will need to remove the group presets from the extends and define only package rules if you want to only enable those only for major

[distor-sil3nt]

Hmm ok. So would that imply I have to add all the sub-presets for monorepo and recommended to my packageRule for major updates? That would be quite a lot of them and spamming our config file quite much.

[RahulGautamSingh]

You should only add the ones you are using. If they are a lot, then create a shared config preset which you can then extend

OR help in fixing the bug 😄