Can this action safely be used for Forgejo Actions?

[Andre601]

Was wondering if someone know wether or not this action could be used within Forgejo Actions and if it was recommended over using the docker image on a schedule.

Forgejo Actions seems to be capable of supporting Actions for GitHub if they use the api url env (supporting enterprise servers) and not use stuff inherently incompatible with Forgejo such as using GraphQL.

As such was I wondering if I could use this action within Forgejo to update dependencies and if it can be run as one Action to update my repositories (Just as I right now have one scheduled run managing my repositories).

[viceice]

you should run it like this

https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo-contrib/forgejo-renovate/src/branch/main/.forgejo/workflows/renovate.yml

[kastl-ars]

Oh, but now that my broken renovate configuration is gone (FATAL: Unsupported file type), this also works:

jobs:
  renovate:
    runs-on: SOME-LABEL
    container:
      image: ghcr.io/renovate/renovate:latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10 # v6.0.3
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Self-hosted Renovate
        uses: https://github.com/renovatebot/github-action@6d859fc95779be83a0335ca704879b47e5d79641 # v46.1.16
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
        env:
          LOG_LEVEL: debug
          RENOVATE_ENDPOINT: ENDPOINT_GOES_HERE
          RENOVATE_PLATFORM: forgejo
          RENOVATE_ONBOARDING: "false"
          RENOVATE_AUTODISCOVER: "false"
          RENOVATE_REPOSITORIES: '["my-org/my-repo"]'

This needs an image that has both nodejs and docker in it. I did not find one so I built one myself for playing around...

As @viceice pointed out, one can use the official renovate image.

[viceice]

why docker? the renovate image has nodejs and docker cli .

you can use forge / forgejo context for endpoint

[kastl-ars]

why docker? the renovate image has nodejs and docker cli .

OK, then it should be possible to use the official renovate image as a base for the official action. I'll test that.

I just wanted to find out if the action can be used "as is", as this would mean I can get improvements/bugfixes/... from the role (if there are any, but you get the idea).

[kastl-ars]

Tested successfully and adjusted my comment above. Thanks for the hint, Michael!

[viceice]

the action is just a dumb wrapper around the docker image. all important logic is inside the image.