Exclude version pattern from renovate

Question

There are several standard Java dependencies that have forks with the same maven coordinates and a "redhat-xxx" suffix in their version number, for example

• commons-configuration:common-configuration
• org.eclipse.microprofile.config:microprofile-config-api
• javax.enterprise:cdi-api

My question is

(How) can I configure renovate to exclude all dependencies whose version matches /redhat-\d+$/ ?

There is a similar question here, but that asks for a more restricted set of dependencies. If I were to define a packageRule like

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "groupName" : "Exclude all redhat-xyz versions"
      "matchPackagePatterns": [".*"],
      "allowedVersions": "!/redhat-\\d+$/"
    }
  ]
}

It would group all dependencies into one giant pull request which isn't helpful.

Answer 1

Try to set registryUrls to standard Maven repo so that Redhat dependencies and such are not checked:

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": ["config:base"],
  "packageRules": [{
    "matchManagers": ["maven"],
    "registryUrls": ["https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"],
  }]
}

or use your given config and add "enabled": false