The old system with vendor/ and git submodules worked great,
unfortunately FUD around git submodules seemed to scare people away and
golang moved to a go.mod system that adds a new lock file format instead
of using the built-in git version. It's now almost impossible to use
modern golang without this, so we've switched.
So much for the golang compatibility promise-- turns out it doesn't
apply to the useful parts that I actually care about like this.
Thanks to frebib for his incredibly valuable contributions to this
patch. This snide commit message is mine alone.
This patch also mixes in some changes due to legacy golang as we've also
bumped the minimum version to 1.16 in the docs and tests.
Lastly, we had to disable some tests and fix up a few other misc things
to get this passing. We've definitely hot bugs in the go.mod system, and
our Makefile tries to workaround those.
We'd like to be able to build both Fedora N and N-1 at the same time if
possible. This makes it more generally applicable for this scenario, as
well as for other distros.
Building distro packages is great, however if they aren't built in the
correct environment with the associated dependencies, then they won't
work properly on those distros.
This patch adds an `mkosi` based image building environment that builds
the packages in their respective distros, and then copies them out into
our releases directory.
You'll now want to `make tag && make mkosi && make release` to get a new
release out. We use a small hack to trick the `make release` portion to
not re-build the distro packages if they're already present in the
releases/ directory for that version.
This commit depends on a very recent version of mkosi (it was tested
with git master) and also depends on two currently unmerged patches:
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/363 and
https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/365
