Use configured credentials for renovate-config-validator

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Self-hosted

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gitlab.com

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28.1.5

Describe the bug

As a maintainer of shared renovate configs I am trying to validate these configs in merge requests before they are merged and used by many projects and potentially break their configuration. These configurations are hosted in a private Gitlab repository.

To do that I'm using the renovate-config-validator binary and pass each configuration file like this:

for file in *.json; do echo "Validating file $file"; RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE=$file renovate-config-validator; done

These configuration files might extend other configuration files in the same repository.

It seems that the renovate-config-validator binary does not use the configured RENOVATE_TOKEN so it fails saying that it cannot access the configured preset:

ERROR: cookiecutter.json is not valid Renovate config
       "err": {
         "validationError": "Cannot find preset's package (gitlab>our-private-repo:automerge)",
         "message": "config-validation",
         "stack": "Error: config-validation\n    at resolveConfigPresets (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:266:25)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)\n    at validateConfig (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/validation.ts:311:23)\n    at validate (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config-validator.ts:34:15)\n    at /usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config-validator.ts:96:9"
       }

P.S.: I'm not sure if a reproduction repo would help , because it probably only occurs in private repos. I could create a public repo that could be forked as a private repo.

Relevant debug logs

ubuntu@9cea5205440f:/repo$ RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE=cookiecutter.json renovate-config-validator
DEBUG: Using RE2 as regex engine
DEBUG: Checking for config file in /repo/cookiecutter.json
 INFO: Validating cookiecutter.json
DEBUG: GitLab API 404
       "url": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/our-private-repo/repository/branches"
DEBUG: Failed to retrieve automerge.json from repo
       "statusCode": 404,
       "url": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/"
DEBUG: Preset fetch error
       "preset": "gitlab>our-private-repo:automerge",
       "err": {
         "message": "dep not found",
         "stack": "Error: dep not found\n    at fetchJSONFile (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/gitlab/index.ts:53:11)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)\n    at fetchPreset (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/util.ts:47:19)\n    at getPreset (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:180:22)\n    at resolveConfigPresets (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:255:27)\n    at validateConfig (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/validation.ts:311:23)\n    at validate (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config-validator.ts:34:15)\n    at /usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config-validator.ts:96:9"
       }
 INFO: Throwing preset error
       "validationError": "Cannot find preset's package (gitlab>our-private-repo:automerge)"
ERROR: cookiecutter.json is not valid Renovate config
       "err": {
         "validationError": "Cannot find preset's package (gitlab>our-private-repo:automerge)",
         "message": "config-validation",
         "stack": "Error: config-validation\n    at resolveConfigPresets (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/presets/index.ts:266:25)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)\n    at validateConfig (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config/validation.ts:311:23)\n    at validate (/usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config-validator.ts:34:15)\n    at /usr/src/app/node_modules/renovate/lib/config-validator.ts:96:9"
       }

Have you created a minimal reproduction repository?

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