Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: go 1.13 and go modules

[William Hubbs]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 03:57:18PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
> On Monday, September 9, 2019 2:46:16 PM PDT William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 08:35:17AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:34:18 -0500
> > >
> > > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> > > > There is another option I want to try which is adding "go mod vendor" to
> > > > src_unpack for go packages.
> > >
> > > Is it infeasible to write a tool that you execute as a maintainer, that
> > > simulates what "go mod vendor" would do, but instead emits a list of
> > > entries for SRC_URI, and then have an eclass or something construct the
> > > vendor dir from those?
> > >
> > > That's what is available for rust stuff.
> >
> > I'm not sure how feasible something like that is.
> >
> > $ go list -m all
> >
> > will list the dependencies of a module, but that doesn't look like it
> > can be translated into src_uri format.
> >
> > You would basically have to parse go.mod exactly the way upstream does
> > it and come up with a way to download the correct versions of the
> > source.
> >
> > William
>
> check mail-client/aerc ebuild.
> I use "go list -m all" and manually format EGO_VENDOR string which will be
> translated into SRC_URI by eclass.
> tool is certainly possible and should be quite easy to implement.
> some manual editing will still be needed if dealing with forked packages/
> repos, but looks pretty straightforward.
> This is very similar approach to cargo ebuilds and it supports offline
> installs, PM checksumming and does not require packaging every single go
> dependency as a package.

Ok, I took a quick look at this.
We will need another eclass similar to the golang-vcs-snapshot eclass,
but it doesn't need to mess with GOPATH since GOPATH isn't used by go
modules.

I will also look at go list -m all and see what comes out of it.

Thanks,

William