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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gyakovlev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: go 1.13 and go modules
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:31:09
Message-Id: 20190910183101.GA3825@whubbs1.dev.av1.gaikai.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: go 1.13 and go modules by William Hubbs
1 On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:21:42PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 03:57:18PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
3 > > On Monday, September 9, 2019 2:46:16 PM PDT William Hubbs wrote:
4 > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 08:35:17AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
5 > > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:34:18 -0500
6 > > > >
7 > > > > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
8 > > > > > There is another option I want to try which is adding "go mod vendor" to
9 > > > > > src_unpack for go packages.
10 > > > >
11 > > > > Is it infeasible to write a tool that you execute as a maintainer, that
12 > > > > simulates what "go mod vendor" would do, but instead emits a list of
13 > > > > entries for SRC_URI, and then have an eclass or something construct the
14 > > > > vendor dir from those?
15 > > > >
16 > > > > That's what is available for rust stuff.
17 > > >
18 > > > I'm not sure how feasible something like that is.
19 > > >
20 > > > $ go list -m all
21 > > >
22 > > > will list the dependencies of a module, but that doesn't look like it
23 > > > can be translated into src_uri format.
24 > > >
25 > > > You would basically have to parse go.mod exactly the way upstream does
26 > > > it and come up with a way to download the correct versions of the
27 > > > source.
28 > > >
29 > > > William
30 > >
31 > > check mail-client/aerc ebuild.
32 > > I use "go list -m all" and manually format EGO_VENDOR string which will be
33 > > translated into SRC_URI by eclass.
34 > > tool is certainly possible and should be quite easy to implement.
35 > > some manual editing will still be needed if dealing with forked packages/
36 > > repos, but looks pretty straightforward.
37 > > This is very similar approach to cargo ebuilds and it supports offline
38 > > installs, PM checksumming and does not require packaging every single go
39 > > dependency as a package.
40 >
41 > Ok, I took a quick look at this.
42 > We will need another eclass similar to the golang-vcs-snapshot eclass,
43 > but it doesn't need to mess with GOPATH since GOPATH isn't used by go
44 > modules.
45 >
46 > I will also look at go list -m all and see what comes out of it.
47
48 It looks like we would also need a way to honor the GOPROXY environment
49 variable as well.
50
51 Thanks,
52
53 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: go 1.13 and go modules Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>