29706/29721

Current behavior

When lockFileMaintenance and the nix manager are enabled, flake.lock files are only refreshed if flake.nix contains a string like "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/anything" (including the double quotes. anything can be replaced with any alpha-numeric string of characters).

Expected behavior

I would expect that when lockFileMaintenance and the nix manager are enabled, then flake.lock will always be refreshed, regardless of the contents/inputs defined in flake.nix.

A workaround for this bug is to inject a dummy string to satisfy Renovate's hard-coded regex:

echo '# Trick renovate into working: "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable"' >> flake.nix

Link to the Renovate issue or Discussion

• renovatebot/renovate#29706
• renovatebot/renovate#29721