Using renovate to update WolfiOS package versions in a Containerfile?

[kastl-ars]

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Dear all,

I was asked to use renovate to update a image based on WolfiOS (the non-distribution used by e.g. the chainguard images).

Did anyone succeed in using renovate to find out versions of packages from the WolfiOS repository?

I thought of something like this in the Containerfile:

# Helm
# renovate: datasource=??? depName=helm
ARG HELM_VERSION=3.18.4-r1

# simplified
RUN apk install helm=$HELM_VERSION

Finding out the 3.18.4 part would be easy, using Github releases. But the -r1 part is the tricky one.

I saw some projects in this direction, does anyone have experiences with them?

• https://github.com/hown3d/renovate-apk-indexer
• https://github.com/karlhaworth/renovate-wolfi-package-versions

Kind Regards,
Johannes

Older question in the same direction, without answer:

#30135 (reply in thread)

[kastl-ars]

I asked whether it is possible to add WolfiOS to repology, so I could just use that datasource and logic. However it seems this is not possible...