Regex versioning only compare semver components

[astellingwerf]

The great thing about the regex versioning, is that non-standard versions can still be compared properly. It allowed me to automatically update a docker image from version 11.0.10_9.202107.262569-ol8-jre-rootless to 11.0.12_7.202109.306039-ol8-jre-rootless, with a pattern regex:^(?<major>\\d+)\\.(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)_\\d+\\.\\d{4}\\d{2}.\\d*(-(?<compatibility>.*))?$. The patterns was required because the default docker versioning assumed that everything from the underscore to the first dash was indicating a prerelease version.

Now version 11.0.12_7.202110.315211-ol8-jre-rootless is released, but Renovate won't suggest it as an update, I guess because the major, minor, patch and compatibility all are the same.
Would it not make sense to allow for the additional comparison of an arbitrary number of version/build numbers?

[viceice]

You can already use a build capture group as an additional number.

@HonkingGoose can you propose a PR to add it to the docs here:

https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/tree/main/lib/versioning/regex

I think I forgot it when implemented the feature

[HonkingGoose]

I think I forgot it when implemented the feature

@viceice I think this PR implemented the feature. 😉 ¹

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/pull/11115 ↩

[HonkingGoose]

See PR #12065 for the documentation fix. 😉