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@gentoo.org> 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