[CentOS-devel] Updating golang in CentOS Extras?

[Niels de Vos]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:14:55AM -0700, Troy Dawson wrote:
> We (the Paas SIG) have made several versions of golang on cbs.  The
> Virt SIG has as well.
> Just find the version you are looking for [1] and tag it into your
> build targets -candidate tag.
> You'll need to wait until your repo is rebuilt (automatic, often in
> under 30 minutes) and there you have it, you now get that version of
> golang.
> One warning.  You will get *that* version of golang.  If the version
> is extra's updates to something else that you want, you will have to
> untag  your version of golang.

Thanks! I've indeed seen that as well and think I can go that route for
the (short term) package building.

However it is not only for the packages that I'm building, but also some
upstream tests that run in the CentOS CI for each GitHub pull-request.
An updated version in Extras would make CentOS an easier platform to
develop+test on. Manually installing Golang for developers and testing
is not *that* an issue, but a 'yum install golang' and getting a more
recent version would be much nicer :-)

Cheers,
Niels


> 
> Troy
> 
> [1] - https://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=16
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently CentOS Extras contains golang-1.4.2, but newer versions have
> > been released since. Is there a plan for updating golang any time soon?
> >
> > In the CentOS Storage SIG we have a package (heketi) that started to
> > depend on golang-1.6.2 (iirc). For us the older version of Golang in
> > Extrasa results in preventing to update Heketi, and so users will not
> > get the new features that are released upstream.
> >
> > If Extras can not get a newer version of Golang (soonish), what is the
> > preferred approach to make an updated version of Golang available for
> > repositories in a SIG?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Niels
> >
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