packageRule matching a given regex configuration of RegexManager

[sclorng]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

I would like to be able to identify a configuration set of RegexManager to apply a package rule.

matchManagers is not enough to target a given configuration.

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

matchDepTypes could be used but we cannot set it on regex manager dependencies.

We could add depType as a valid validMatchFields.

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

No

[rarkins]

Can you describe more about why you need this capability? Maybe we can work out another way.

You might also try working around it by using depName and lookupName. matchPackageNames/Patterns is based on depName

[sclorng]

oh yes, that should work. Actually, I need a key to group docker image dependencies together and I was worried of what will be displayed in the MR if the depName is all the same.

[sclorng]

It works, but the package name in the MR is now depName for all of them.

[rarkins]

Possible ideas:

• Allow depType to be configured using regex manager, or
• Allow regex managers be given their own optional manager name

Probably depType is best?

[sclorng]

depType seems to be easier to do by adding it to the list

renovate/lib/manager/regex/index.ts

Lines 16 to 24 in 42fd18d

	const validMatchFields = [
	'depName',
	'lookupName',
	'currentValue',
	'currentDigest',
	'datasource',
	'versioning',
	'extractVersion',
	'registryUrl',

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