Deps dashboard monitoring - #173
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Add customManagers to renovate.json so Renovate watches the *_VERSION lines in env.sh for tor/zlib/libevent/openssl and lists available upstream releases on the Dependency Dashboard. Configured with dependencyDashboardApproval so it never opens PRs on its own — the brave-tor-client-release Jenkins job remains responsible for that. Rewrite DEPS_MONITORING.md to lead with the dashboard as the primary signal, keep the upstream RSS/changelog/mailing-list sources as fallback, and document where each tarball's SHA256 hash comes from.
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This PR adds Renovate-based monitoring for the pinned C dependency versions in env.sh via the Renovate Dependency Dashboard, and updates the dependency monitoring documentation to make the dashboard the primary signal and clarify how to obtain/verifiy tarball hashes.
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- Enable Renovate Dependency Dashboard + approval gating, and add regex
customManagersto track*_VERSIONvariables inenv.sh. - Add package rules to constrain Tor versions and surface releases immediately on the dashboard.
- Rewrite
DEPS_MONITORING.mdto document the dashboard workflow, upstream fallback sources, and the origin of*_HASHvalues.
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| renovate.json | Adds Renovate dashboard configuration and regex managers for TOR_VERSION, ZLIB_VERSION, LIBEVENT_VERSION, OPENSSL_VERSION. |
| DEPS_MONITORING.md | Reorients docs around the Renovate dashboard and documents hash provenance and canonical download URLs. |
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| Canonical URLs (same ones the build downloads from): | ||
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| # tor -> hash is published, just read it | ||
| curl -fsSL https://dist.torproject.org/tor-$TOR_VERSION.tar.gz.sha256sum |
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| `dependencyDashboardApproval`, so it never opens PRs on its own — the dashboard | ||
| is purely a notification surface. | ||
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| When the dashboard shows a newer version, run the `brave-tor-client-release` |
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this seems to run every 2 days from my understanding of https://developer.mend.io/github/brave/tor_build_scripts - not sure if it can be configured to be more frequent or if that's acceptable
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closing for now as the cadence seems too slow |
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Supposedly this does the following:
Add customManagers to renovate.json so Renovate watches the *_VERSION lines in env.sh for tor/zlib/libevent/openssl and lists available upstream releases on the Dependency Dashboard. Configured with dependencyDashboardApproval so it never opens PRs on its own — the brave-tor-client-release Jenkins job remains responsible for that.
Rewrite DEPS_MONITORING.md to lead with the dashboard as the primary signal, keep the upstream RSS/changelog/mailing-list sources as fallback, and document where each tarball's SHA256 hash comes from.