Overriding enabledManagers in child presets

[sheerlox]

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Hey 👋 I have a Renovate setup with about 5-6 presets extending in a tree-like structure for each language + project type combinations I'm working on.

I just tried disabling all managers except the ones I need everywhere on my base preset and re-enabling the managers I want in each child preset.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem possible at the moment without listing every manager in the base preset to disable them.

Would you entertain the idea of letting { [manager]: { "enabled": true } } push to the enabled managers even if it isn't initially included in the enabledManagers array?

I'm down to look into this and build a PR if you want 😁

Here's the revert commit showing what I was attempting: insurgent-lab/.github@4d4d937

[rarkins]

Would you entertain the idea of letting { [manager]: { "enabled": true } } push to the enabled managers even if it isn't initially included in the enabledManagers array?

No, I think that would be too hacky. I recommend trying to use packageRules with matchManagers + enabled settings as these can be overridden more easily.

[sheerlox]

Yes, I've ended up using matchManagers on all my packageRules (see below), it's a bit of work and gives a lot of room to forget one matchManagers somewhere, but I guess that's ok. Presets also become unusable (which probably isn't a bad thing in a shared config like this one).

chore(renovate): refactor to better separate manager configs

Not sure I understand what you mean however by matchManagers + enabled, how do these pair together?

Now that I think of it, you're probably right that it would be hacky to implement such enabledManagers overrides. Maybe a new config option like appendMatchManagers would make more sense?

[rarkins]

You pair together matchManagers + enabled inside packageRules

Can you summarize the logic you want to use?

e.g. by default you want to enable very few managers, but you want to allow repos to enable more, BUT those repos cannot include the original enabledManagers for some reason?

[sheerlox]

I'm only trying to achieve that part, the original enabledManagers should remain untouched:

by default you want to enable very few managers, but you want to allow repos to enable more

Right ok, so I should be able to do something like this:

// main config
{
  matchManagers: ["*"],
  enabled: false,
},
{
  matchManagers: [...DEFAULT_MANAGERS],
  enabled: true,
}

// child config
{
  matchManagers: [...SPECIFIC_MANAGERS],
  enabled: true,
}

[rarkins]

This example you gave should work. The difference between this and enabledManagers is that enabledManagers means that Renovate won't even attempt to scan/discover disabled dependencies, whereas in the above example Renovate will first scan for dependencies and then disable some before looking up

[sheerlox]

Just tested this out and it works like a charm. Thank you Rhys!