How can a file be updated in a mono repo scenario that is outside of the package path?

[seansilvestri]

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Hi there,
I'm looking to update a file that is outside of the package path in a monorepo scenario, want to set the branch on a gitaction with the version.
However, not matter what I try I get an error because it can't find the file and I assume it needs to be within the package path.

Error: release-please failed: illegal pathing characters in path: actions/check-auto-sync/../../.github/workflows/check-auto-sync.yaml

Are there any recommended workarounds?

"actions/check-auto-sync": {
      "release-type": "simple",
      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
      "extra-files": [
        {
          "type": "yaml",
          "path": "../../.github/workflows/check-auto-sync.yaml",
          "jsonpath": "$.jobs.check-argo-cd-auto-sync.steps[?(@.name=='Check ArgoCD Auto Sync Is Disabled')].uses",
          "value": "sentinel-one/cd-automation/actions/check-auto-sync@${version}"
        }
      ]
    }

[daviddenton]

We have a similar but potentially different scenario. We are trying to release several packages from a single monorepo, but with each package having shared source dependencies which are outside of their own tree.

For example, we have a repo with:

/app/diary
/lib/date_picker

In the above, diary is dependent on date_picker. We'd like changes inside date_picker to also trigger an entry in the diary changelog.

We have tried using the root as '/' and then mapping diary to /app/diary in the config, then using extra-files with a glob entry of ...

{
   "type": "generic"
  "path": "/lib/date_picker/**"
   "glob": true
   "
}

.. but this does not seem to trigger an entry to be created when we do a commit to /lib/date_picker/package.json.

We're not sure if RP currently is designed to handle our use-case or even if it's possible by extension (maybe a custom strategy?). 🙃