gradle replacement dependency causes branch update to fail with status 0

[Mousterian]

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Hi,

I have a problem related to this topic and I'm trying to work out if it is a bug:

I have a self hosted setup (running renovate 39.182.3), in my target repository there is a gradle build with a dependency that has replacement available, e.g. org.hibernate:hibernate-validator

When renovate runs I get a warning:

WARN: gradle manager does not support replacement updates yet

which is fair enough, the feature is not there yet.

Then I get an error logged as a warning about not being able to update the branch:

WARN: Error updating branch: update failure (repository=<***redacted***>, branch=renovate-group-all)

There are other dependencies available to upgrade but renovate-group-all is not updated, and renovate exits with status 0 so the pipeline succeeds.

If I suppress the replacement dependency with a packageRule, e.g.

{
      "description": "Suppress updates for gradle dependencies flagged as having replacements",
      "matchPackageNames": [ "org.hibernate:hibernate-validator" ],
      "enabled": false
}

then renovate ignores the suppressed package, and manages to update renovate-group-all with the other eligible dependencies.

So, something seems wrong, I think either renovate should ignore replacement MRs for gradle until they are supported, or it should return an error status so I know I need to suppress those packages. The combination of the failure and no error status meant this was hard to spot and resolve.

Thanks!

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[rarkins]

Yes, I think Renovate should ignore replacement MRs for gradle. Adding a matchManagers: ['!gradle'] to the existing rule should achieve that. PR welcome if you like

[Mousterian]

Thanks for looking at this, sounds good - I will take a look and see if I can put together a PR.