Hello Nicolas,
Also, we have recently discussed this matter with Robert-André Mauchin
(@eclipseo).
To make a long story short, for packaging binaries we basically have two
options for EPEL8:
1) Using vendored dependencies aka using Go modules functionality, and
providing modules archive as a SourceXX.
It works, but evidently it produces bulky SRPMS, and requires some efforts
to maintain a single spec across various branches as well;
2) Using side-tags (the approach I'm not really familiar with, but it looks
promising).
Would be glad if someone could provide a working snippet set which could be
used for packaging Go binary packages.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 7:17 PM Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net>
wrote:
Le 2020-08-20 22:05, Denis Fateyev a écrit :
>>> Could anybody provide some more info: are Go rpm macroses not
>> fully backported to RHEL8 currently? Any kind of blockers, perhaps?
Unfortunately, while the Go-specific logic of the macros is quite
release-agnostic, they depend on some common code in redhat-rpm-config
that did not make it to EL8. The way @rh freezes common tooling at the
start of an EL release inherently conflicts with languages like Go which
are still fast evolving and requiring changes not fossilized a decade
ago.
And it would be quite hard to both froze initial EL implementation in
stone and provide parallel updates (modularity & containers only work
for leaf features not core shared low level code)
Regards,
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Nicolas Mailhot
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wbr, Denis.