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Jamie Tanna 629740f827 fix(versioning/apk): correctly implement APK's version constraint operators (#45692)
As part of future changes, we're introducing a means to parse
Dockerfiles for any `apk add` commands, so we can propose updates to any
packages using the APK datasource.

Before we do this, we need to correct a couple of bugs in our
implementation of the APK versioning scheme, so we can handle i.e.

    apk add curl=~8.12.1

When the `apk` CLI builds a version constraint, it `OR`s one flag per
operator character[0].

For instance, `~` sets both "fuzzy" and "equal".

These operator characters may be in any order and may repeat, so `~`,
`=~` and `~=` are all the same operator, and `>>` and `>` are the same.

To correct our parsing, we should take this into account, rather than
using known patterns.

When we perform a fuzzy match, this is performed over version _tokens_
not the version itself, which means that:

- `~1.6` matches `1.6`, `1.6.0_pre1`, `1.6.0`, `1.6.5` and `1.6.9_p1`
- `~1.6` does not match `1.60`
- `~8.12.1` matches every `8.12.1-rN` i.e. `8.12.1-r1` and `8.12.1-r100`

While doing this, we also fix related issues:

- `~` previously treated this as an npm-style tilde ("same major and
  minor, and greater than or equal"),
  - admitted fuzzy versions that `apk` rejects - `~2.39.0-r0` should not have
    matched `2.39.1-r0`
  - rejected fuzzy versions that `apk` accepts - `~2.39.0` should have
    matched `2.39.0-r1`
- `=~` and `~=` were not allowed
- `isSingleVersion('=~1.2.3')` was true, so a range looked like a pin
- `isLessThanRange` compared against the raw range, so `_parse` failed on
  the operator and it always returned false
- `minSatisfyingVersion` was inherited, so it only ever found an exact
  match
- `getNewValue` dropped the operator entirely, rewriting `~8.12.1` to a
  bare version

We also set `supportsRanges`, which we'd forgotten to set despite `~`
and `>=` being ranges, and note that we support `pin`, `replace` and
`bump` strategies.

When using `getNewValue`, we now keep the precision the constraint was
written with, as otherwise we'd quietly narrow what the user asked for:

- `~8.12.1` becomes `~8.13.0` (previously `~8.13.0-r0`)
- `~8.12` becomes `~8.13`
- `~8.12.1-r0` becomes `~8.13.0-r2` (with a new revision number)

For `bump`, we raise a lower bound which includes its boundary, as with
`npm` and `pep440`, so:

- `>=8.12.1` becomes `>=8.13.0`
- `>~8.12` becomes `>~8.13`

Otherwise we return `null`, logging which constraint we couldn't handle
in the `bump` case, as `npm` does:

- `>` on its own can't be bumped, as `>8.13.0` would exclude the version
  we bump to
- `<` and `<=` are upper bounds, so there's no lower bound to raise
- for `replace`, there's no single obvious new bound for `<`, `<=`, `>`,
  `>=`, `>~` or `<~`, and a bound which already admits the new version
  doesn't need one
- a prefix constraint whose version doesn't parse, i.e. `~foo`, which
  would otherwise throw

`><` constrains a package to an identity hash rather than to a version,
so it's rejected outright.

Additionally, `isLessThanRange` and `matches` weren't agreeing on how to
resolve a fuzzy constraint.

For instance, `_compare` ranks `2.39.0_git20240101` below `2.39.0`, but
`~2.39.0` matches it, this would lead to a rollback of sorts.

Instead, we can ignore the `_git` and `_p` suffixes, which are common in
Alpine and Wolfi packages.

[0]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools/-/blob/44dcdfc255c26a4e19a4a27f66a54169cce5ca72/src/version.c

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>
2026-09-08 17:54:56 +00:00
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Datasources

Datasources are used in Renovate primarily to fetch released versions of packages.

Follow the class-based programming style

New datasources must follow the class-based programming style. Use the java-version datasource as a reference.

Add the datasource to the API in api.ts so that the new datasource is usable. If you find Unused HTTP mocks errors in the Vitest tests and your mocked URLs are correct, make sure the datasource is correctly registered.

getReleases

The minimum exported interface for a datasource is a function called getReleases that takes a lookup config as input.

The config has:

  • packageName: the package's full name including scope if present (e.g. @foo/bar)
  • registryUrls: an array of registry URLs to try

getReleases should return an object having:

  • releases: an array of strings of matched versions. This is the only mandatory field
  • deprecationMessage: a string description of the package's deprecation notice, if applicable
  • sourceUrl: a HTTP URL pointing to the source code (for example on GitHub)
  • homepage: a HTTP URL for the package's homepage. Ideally should be empty if the homepage and sourceUrl are the same
  • changelogUrl: a URL pointing to the package's changelog (could be a Markdown file, for example). If not present then Renovate will search the sourceUrl for a changelog file
  • tags: an object mapping tag → version, for example tags: { latest: '3.0.0' }. This is only used by the followTags function

getDigest

Datasources that support digests (like Docker digests and Git commit hashes) can export a getDigest function.

The getDigest function has two inputs:

  • config: the Renovate config for the package being updated, has the same fields as getReleases
  • newValue: the version or value to retrieve the digest for

The getDigest function returns a string output representing the digest value. If no digest is found, the getDigest function should return null.