packageRules[n].extends doesn't appear in the schema / doesn't seem to work

[poulet42]

What would you like help with?

I think I found a bug

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted

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gitlab, 37.408.0

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packageRules documentation states we can use extends inside packageRules to extend different configuration based on a directory, when I try to edit my configuration to match something like this, I don't get autocomplete for the "extends" key, and looking at the $schema, it doesn't seem to be documented there either. In addition this doesn't seem to work at all, it seems only the root extends got used here.

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[rarkins]

Unfortunately the schema is not perfect, and it's not the best investment in our time to make it perfect instead of making more features. There's also a built-in validator for Renovate you can read more about here (also not perfect): https://docs.renovatebot.com/config-validation/#config-validation

[poulet42]

Thanks for the quick answer 🙏 , tried to run the validator and it doesn't seem happy with nested "extends" (using the same notation as the doc screenshot above). For the context I'm trying to setup renovate in a monorepo (with apps/** and packages/** directories).
If the configuration syntax above is not valid, how canI have config overrides based on directories/workspaces?

[rarkins]

You never need to use extends within packageRules, so I advise you actively avoid it if you're having troubles with it. You would override things by having packageRules which repeat the same config which the preset has. You can see the contents of the preset in docs or source code of Renovate

[poulet42]

Sorry, I think I didn't get exactly your last answer; 🙇

I have a mix of apps and libs in a monorepo. according to this article in your docs I should apply different pinning strategies for apps and consumed libraries. How can I tell renovate to do so, when everything lives under one repo?

[rarkins]

Use matchFileNames patterns like you originally suggested, but avoid using extends - just use regular config (e.g. semanticCommits)

[poulet42]

Awesome! I will try this :) Thank you