Support special prefixes in aqua.yaml's package name fields to specify Renovate datasources

[suzuki-shunsuke]

Feature Overview

Support special prefixes in aqua.yaml's package name fields to specify Renovate datasources.

Why is the feature needed?

Basically, aqua-renovate-config updates packages using github-releases datasource.
Sometimes we want to use other datasources such as go and cargo, but there is no consistent way to do it.

So it is good to define the consistent way to specify Renovate datasource.
Basically, Renovate datasource is needed for aqua.yaml and isn't needed for registry.yaml.

As for registry.yaml, aqua supports version_source field, so we will be able to support other datasources for aqua g.

Does the feature include Breaking Changes?

Basically no.

Note that if we specify the prefix in existing packages, old aqua can't install them.

e.g.

- name: github-release://cli/[email protected]

Example Code

aqua.yaml

packages:
- name: ${datasource}://${package name}

e.g.

- name: crate://[email protected]

Other approach 1. Support special code comment

e.g.

- name: crate.io/[email protected] # datasource=crate

The concern of this approach is aqua g has to generate code comment. It may be difficult.

Reference

• https://github.com/orgs/aquaproj/discussions/2016#discussioncomment-5933785
• https://github.com/aquaproj/aqua-renovate-config
• https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/datasource/
• https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/manager/regex/
• https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#regexmanagers

[suzuki-shunsuke]

Hmm. To avoid the conflict of package names, package names should have the namespace.
All packages in Standard Registry have namespaces.
The namespace of almost packages is the GitHub Organization (User) name.

The package name skim has no namespace.
This is unique in crate.io, but aqua packages is not only for crate.io.
So the package name should have the prefix.

[suzuki-shunsuke]

Regarding to the prefix, we have to consider other Git hosting service such as Gitea and GitLab.

• Support artifact downloading from major Git hosters #1359

[suzuki-shunsuke]

And we have to consider the directory structure of Standard Registry.

https://github.com/aquaproj/aqua-registry/tree/main/pkgs

[suzuki-shunsuke]

- name: crate.io/[email protected]
- name: gitea.com/gitea/[email protected]
- name: gitlab.com/gitlab-org/[email protected]