[Docker-maint] Bug#782301: golang: the way golang is packages makes it unusable to build upstream go

[Tianon Gravi]

On 10 April 2015 at 00:49, Shawn Landden <shawn at churchofgit.com> wrote:
> I don't believe the debian package can be used for that because the way the files are layed out.

Ouch, I tried this out and you're correct.

My first thought would be that we should setup a traditional GOROOT
somewhere and have the binaries we install be symlinks to that
location instead, which is how I've seen upstream used in the past
(and which fixes this problem; essentially "/usr/share/go" and
"/usr/lib/go" combined into one directory instead of being split).

♥,
- Tianon
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