preset for renovating renovate configuration itself

[electriquo]

Tell us more.

when using sharable configuration preset, renovate configuration may look like

{
  "extends": ["github>rarkins/renovate-config#1.2.3"]
}

and would expect renovate to renovate its configuration and open a pull request when there is a new version to to a sharable configuration preset. for instance, updating 1.2.3 to 1.2.4.

feels natural to add a preset to the regex manager preset for updating renovate configuration itself.

what do you think?

[rarkins]

Sounds good

[electriquo]

maybe this can help?

  "regexManagers": [
    {
      "fileMatch": ["(^|/).?renovate(?:rc)?(?:\\.json5?)?$"],
      "matchStrings": [
        "(.*?[^\"])\"(?<provider>git(lab|hub|ea))>(?<depName>.*?)((?<path>(\\/\\/)(.*?[^#]))?#(?<currentValue>.*?[^\"]))?\""
      ],
      "datasourceTemplate": "{{provider}}-tags"
    },

[jamietanna]

This is now available

[electriquo]

Please share the corresponding PR and any reference to the docs (E.g. how to enable this? is this the default behavior? which preset includes this?).
Thank you :)

[RahulGautamSingh]

It's not a preset. It's a built-in manager called renovate-config, enabled by default like any other manager.

No preset to extend, nothing to turn on.

https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/manager/renovate-config/