Flutter dependencies updates are not found

[zillemarco]

What would you like help with?

I would like help with my configuration

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Self-hosted

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GitLab - Renovate 38.18.15

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I have set up a GitLab pipeline to run Renovate on one of our projects that's using Flutter, but when it runs no updates are found.

The setup configuration is fairly simple and looks like this:

{
  repository: "...",
  enabledManagers: ["pub"],
  rangeStrategy: "auto",
  packageRules: [
    {
      matchDepTypes: ["dev_dependencies"],
      groupName: "dev dependencies",
    },
    {
      matchDepTypes: ["dependencies"],
      groupName: "dependencies",
    },
  ]
}

When running, I see that the dependencies are found (the dashboard is also created), but none of the dependencies are being updated.

I know that some one them have updates available, and the version range specified in pubspec.yaml would allow the update, but still Renovate is not updating any.

Looking at the debug logs, one of the I see that one of the dependencies are being reported with this data:

{
    "depName": "http",
    "depType": "dependencies",
    "currentValue": "^1.1.2",
    "datasource": "dart",
    "updates": [],
    "packageName": "http",
    "versioning": "npm",
    "warnings": [],
    "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/dart-lang/http",
    "registryUrl": "https://pub.dartlang.org",
    "sourceDirectory": "pkgs/http",
    "currentVersion": "1.2.2",
    "currentVersionTimestamp": "2024-07-16T20:09:47.863Z"
}

Our pubspec.yaml has the version set to ^1.1.2 and the pubspec.lock has the version set to version: "1.2.1", so I wonder if Renovate is updating the new version (that I see on currentVersion set to 1.2.2) but not updating the file for some reason?

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks! 🙇

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[rarkins]

Please read the docs for rangeStrategy. It sounds like you're expecting update-lockfile functionality

[zillemarco]

Thank you @rarkins, I tried changing rangeStrategy from auto to update-lockfile but it didn't change anything unfortunately.

On the logs I keep seeing DEBUG: 0 flattened updates found, while on other projects (using Yarn) it works correctly and finds updates.

[zillemarco]

Mmmm, I tried "forcing" it by setting rangeStrategy to bump and it did find the updates 🤔

So why could it be that update-lockfile is not working? 🤔

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