Ndtyjky

Using go modules, I would like to replace labix.org/v2/mgo with github.com/globalsign/mgo. The http://labix.org/mgo repository is unmaintained and has been forked to https://github.com/globalsign/mgo

• my code is stored outside $GOPATH in the directory ~/git/foo
  


• I'm using go1.11


• other go modules are working (for example go list -m all lists other modules, the files go.mod and go.sum are updating automatically. See the full file below)

I've tried the following in the go.mod file:

replace labix.org/v2/mgo => github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20181015145952-eeefdecb41b842af6dc652aaea4026e8403e62df

Running go build gives the following error:

build github.com/foo/bar: cannot find module for path labix.org/v2/mgo

The documentation in go help modules discusses Pseudo-Versions eg v0.0.0-yyy.., which I'm trying to use because the tags on https://github.com/globalsign/mgo are of the form r2018.06.15 and not v1.2.3 (semantic versioning).

In addition go help modules says:

Pseudo-versions never need to be typed by hand: the go command will accept

the plain commit hash and translate it into a pseudo-version (or a tagged

version if available) automatically. This conversion is an example of a

module query.

However I can't work out the command for generating a pseudo-version when I'm in the cloned github.com/globalsign/mgo (located at $GOPATH/src/github.com/globalsign/mgo). Hence the pseudo-version I've manually generated may be wrong.

The full go.mod file looks like:

module github.com/foo/bar                                                                                                                                     



replace labix.org/v2/mgo => github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20181015145952-eeefdecb41b842af6dc652aaea4026e8403e62df                                                                          



require (                                                                                                                                                                                     

  github.com/DATA-DOG/godog v0.7.8                                                                                                                                                            

  github.com/alecthomas/assert v0.0.0-20170929043011-405dbfeb8e38 // indirect                                                                                                                 

  github.com/alecthomas/colour v0.0.0-20160524082231-60882d9e2721 // indirect                                                                                                                 

  github.com/alecthomas/repr v0.0.0-20181024024818-d37bc2a10ba1 // indirect

  ...                                                                                                                   

)

When using the replace directive, leave the pseudo-version out.
It's also stated here, which points to an open issue.

Probably off-topic, but I've mostly used replace when I wanted to use a local version of some dependency. Why not import the forked lib which you'd like to use (instead of the original non-maintained one) and have mod resolve it properly?

The source being replaced (in this case labix.org/v2/mgo) also needs to be added to the require list with a version of v0.0.0 (even though it won't be downloaded). In the replace the source doesn't need a version but the target does.

However I haven't worked out how to auto-generate the pseudo version for the target (github.com/globalsign/mgo in this case), so I still needed to manually generate it.

Here's a better go.mod file:

  1 module foo.bar/qux                        

  2                                                                                  

  3 replace labix.org/v2/mgo => github.com/globalsign/mgo v0.0.0-20181015145952-eeefdecb41b842af6dc652aaea4026e8403e62df

  4                                                                                  

  5 require (                                                                        

  6   github.com/DATA-DOG/godog v0.7.8                                               

  7   github.com/alecthomas/assert v0.0.0-20170929043011-405dbfeb8e38 // indirect    

      <snip>                 

 21   golang.org/x/image v0.0.0-20181116024801-cd38e8056d9b // indirect              

 22   labix.org/v2/mgo v0.0.0                                                        

 23 )

Notice the require of labix.org on line 22; go mod tidy accepts this.

However I now come up against a different issue, the use of internal packages (referred to in issues like this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23970). I still haven't solved this new problem.

% go build main.go

/home/sonia/go/pkg/mod/github.com/globalsign/mgo@v0.0.0-20181015145952-eeefdecb41b842af6dc652aaea4026e8403e62df/auth.go:38:2:

use of internal package github.com/globalsign/mgo/internal/scram not allowed