Add helm smoke test (versioning-strategy) - #547
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Wires the helm ecosystem into the smoke suite now that versioning-strategy support landed (#15218). Pairs with the smoke-helm.yaml test in dependabot/smoke-tests (dependabot/smoke-tests#547). Co-authored-by: Hariharan Thavachelvam <164553783+thavaahariharangit@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds a smoke test for the
helmecosystem, covering theversioning-strategysupport that landed in dependabot-core (dependabot/dependabot-core#15218).The fixture (
helm/Chart.yaml) and recording (tests/smoke-helm.yaml) live in this repo, matching every other ecosystem's smoke test — no dependency on any contributor's personal repo or registry.The fixture currently depends on
metrics-server(kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server, hosted athttps://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/metrics-server/). It was chosen as a deliberately safe placeholder: a large, stable, actively-maintained, GitHub-hosted chart with plain semver versions (nov-prefix, no OCI auth). Please swap it for whatever canonical test chart/registry you'd prefer to depend on long-term — the fixture header calls this out inline too.What it exercises
A single caret-constrained dependency, verifying the headline
versioning-strategybehavior — the operator is preserved rather than exact-pinned:^3.0.0^3.13.1This is the common one-requirement-per-chart case. If you'd like broader coverage (tilde, explicit ranges, exact pins) once the chart is settled, I'm happy to expand the fixture.
ℹ️ Bootstrap state — the
smoke (helm)run here is live/uncached (by design)Since this adds a brand-new ecosystem, there's no
cache-helmartifact yet, sosmoke (helm)runs uncached (same as how new-ecosystem PRs like #541/#483 bootstrap). To make that live fetch resolve the not-yet-on-mainfixture,source.commit/base-commit-shaare pinned to this PR's fixture commit (reachable viarefs/pull/547/head); I've verified locally that a fresh-cache run produces output byte-identical to the recording. The run currently passes because3.13.1is metrics-server's latest — if a newer version ships before merge it'll drift red until re-recorded.Durable finish (maintainer, post-merge): run Cache One (
package_manager: helm) to uploadcache-helm, then Regenerate Test (test: helm) to re-pinsource.committo a realmaincommit. Happy to do any of this if I'm granted the access, or to adjust to whatever you prefer.Companion
Matrix wiring is in dependabot/dependabot-core#15554 (adds
{core: helm, test: helm, ecosystem: helm}to.github/smoke-matrix.json).