fix(renovate): resolve invalid config blocking Renovate PRs#6
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Renovate stopped opening PRs due to two config errors (issue #5): - customManagers regex used a negative lookahead `(?!ghcr\.io/openchami/)`, which Go's RE2 engine (used by Renovate) does not support. The second manager was otherwise identical to the first, so collapse both into one manager matching any annotated image; packageRules already scope behaviour per registry. - packageRules cannot combine `matchUpdateTypes` and `ignoreUnstable`. Drop the redundant `matchUpdateTypes` — `ignoreUnstable` alone does the intended job of skipping pre-release tags. Also modernize deprecated `matchPackagePrefixes`/`matchPackagePatterns` to `matchPackageNames` glob form to avoid future config warnings. Validated with `renovate-config-validator`. Closes #5 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixes the two Renovate config validation errors reported in #5, which were causing Renovate to halt all PRs.
1. Invalid regExp (customManagers)
The second custom manager used a negative lookahead
(?!ghcr\.io/openchami/). Renovate's regex managers run on Go's RE2 engine, which does not support lookahead assertions, so the pattern was rejected.The second manager was byte-for-byte identical to the first except for that lookahead (same
datasource, sameversioningtemplate), so both are collapsed into a single manager matching any annotated image. ThepackageRulesalready scope behaviour per-registry, so no coverage is lost.2.
packageRulescombinedmatchUpdateTypes+ignoreUnstableRenovate forbids these together in one rule. The rule's job — skip pre-release tags — is handled entirely by
ignoreUnstable: true, so the redundantmatchUpdateTypesis dropped.Bonus cleanup
Modernized deprecated
matchPackagePrefixes/matchPackagePatternstomatchPackageNames: ["ghcr.io/openchami/**"](Renovate was already auto-migrating these), preventing future config warnings.Validation
Closes #5
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