"src" folder changed to "pkg"

Clitson Belleau

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Sep 13, 2021, 7:35:22 PM9/13/21

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Hi,

Has anyone had an issue with Go referencing "src" folders from the which was changed to "pkg" since v1.6? If so is there any way to fix this or any link to a similar issue?

I couldn't find anything in the documentation regarding this. I am running the latest v1.17.1 release.

The folder listing for my GOPATH:

Thanks in advance,

Clitson

Ian Lance Taylor

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Sep 13, 2021, 8:39:37 PM9/13/21

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When presenting text, please present it as ordinary text, not as images. Text is much easier to read than images. Thanks.

You should not have a directory $GOROOT/src/github.com. I don't know why that appears to exist on your system.

Ian

Clitson Belleau

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Sep 13, 2021, 10:22:52 PM9/13/21

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Noted with thanks.

I used "go get ." to download the package "github.com/google/gopacket", however Go is searching for it in "$GOPATH/src" while it was downloaded to "$GOPATH/pkg/mod".

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Anderson Queiroz

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Sep 15, 2021, 3:56:51 AM9/15/21

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If I'm not mistaken `$GOPATH/pkg/mod` where go modules keeps the downloaded modules, looking up `$GOPATH/pkg/mod` is to look for a module downloaded in module aware mode and `$GOPATH/src` is for gopath mode.

Are you working with go modules or on the legacy go path mode?

Clitson Belleau

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Sep 16, 2021, 3:51:35 PM9/16/21

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Alright, I got it fixed. As Anderson suggested, I ran go in legacy mode by manually setting GO111MODULE=off in win env var so I doesn't reset upon next instance of go (since it's a temporary variable). I also reinstalled git.