Custom package name for Hex dependency

[bernardo-martinez]

Tell us more.

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

In Mix in elixir you can setup a dependency with a different name than the default one fetched from hex.pm, see: https://hex.pm/docs/usage#options

For example:

{:gun, "~> 2.0.0", hex: :grpc_gun},

This will fetch the grpc_gun dependency from hex.pm located here: https://hex.pm/packages/grpc_gun but will treat it locally as gun

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

I think the mix manager should have an additional regex to search for such hex: option and use it to set PackageDependency.sourceUrl accordingly, which then would be used in the hex versioning?

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?
Yes, just need some discussion and guidance first

[bernardo-martinez]

I have created a minimal reproduction repo here: bernardo-martinez/renovate-reproduction-32834#1

[bernardo-martinez]

ok thanks i will read again, the readme instructions. OTOH I did not created it by hand, i mean i locally ran in main: pnpm start bernardo-martinez/renovate-reproduction-32834 with my github access token, which is what generated the PR 🤔 isn't this a valid way to run it?

[RahulGautamSingh]

It is but sometimes you file config (config.js) might be affecting the outcome. So to be safe we insist to install the hosted app

[rarkins]

It's missing all the usual PR body of a renovate PR

[bernardo-martinez]

thanks for the answers guys. I have updated the README as required, and also created a new PR: bernardo-martinez/renovate-reproduction-32834#3 (it can be seen that the author of the commit is the renovate-bot) I created it again from my local (dunno how to do "we insist to install the hosted app" 🙇 ) and it has now the usual PR body, lemme know if now is ok 🙏

[rarkins]

Thanks, converted to issue here: #32972