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Add renovate support for updating lockfile

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale

Research direction

Start by reviewing Renovate's existing Bazel module support and the repository's MODULE.bazel lockfile workflow. Compare the differing artifact filenames and checksum conventions across the tools involved, then define what a working Renovate integration should update and how its bot pull requests should be validated.

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Description

@mark-thm I know you mentioned some ideas for tooling to manage the lockfile. @cgrindel contributed the Bazel module to renovate so it can send bot PRs against the MODULE.bazel file - maybe a similar approach could work here?

I think the hard part is that each tool has different conventions. Even for those that use GitHub releases to serve artifacts, there are variations on filenames, and some publish checksums while others do not.

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