Cannot go get Telegraft 0.12.1, lots of "use of internal package not allowed"

[caiobegotti]

Hi, I am trying to package Telegraf and I keep getting the errors below when calling go get. I am using Go 1.6.1 and pulling Telegraf 0.12.1 from git://github.com/influxdb/telegraf.git:

$ env GOPATH=/tmp/foobar go get -t -d ./telegraf.git/...

package telegraf/agent
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/agent
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/cmd/telegraf
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/internal/config
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/internal/config
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/filestat
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/globpath: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/httpjson
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/lustre2
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/system
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/tcp_listener
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/inputs/zfs
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/amon
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/amqp
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/datadog
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/influxdb
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/kafka
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/librato
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed
package telegraf/plugins/outputs/mqtt
    imports github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal: use of internal package not allowed

Is there any branch with the whole s/influxdata/influxdb issue fixed for a test? I read in other bug reports that this is a known problem to be addressed?

[sparrc]

that issue has long been fixed, your telegraf directory needs to be in the influxdata directory, not influxdb

[caiobegotti]

What do you mean? I just git cloned it, checked out f76739c and ran that go get command and it failed... also, cloning from influxdata instead from influxdb makes no difference for this problem. What should have been done differently?

[sparrc]

Then something is wrong with your Go environment, I'm sorry but I don't have time to debug go environment problems for users

[caiobegotti]

Sorry, but I wasn't asking for you to debug it but simply tell me where and what to look for as I can debug it myself :-) my point is that both on Go 1.5.3 and 1.6.1 only Telegraf shows this problem. I didn't have any issues with the same steps using other Go projects, so I assume it's Telegraf that is misbehaving.

[sparrc]

There's nothing wrong with Telegraf builds, I can guarantee that 100%, this might be the only project you're building with internal packages.

BTW, why don't you just use go get github.com/influxdata/telegraf/...?

[caiobegotti]

Because code cloning, deps download (the one failing) and actual building need to be executed in separate steps in the packaging I am doing for Snappy Ubuntu Core.

[sparrc]

My recommendation would be that you should be cloning your repos into your GOPATH. I think if you try building a Go project with an internal directory you'll get the same results (such as https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil)