Updating github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go is painful

[freeformz]

When libraries remove (or rename) packages it can be difficult to update them. An example of this is github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go.

Internally we have some software that uses aws-sdk-go and wanted to upgrade from 661aeb3339ad9bd5fd420752ebf18a651d40413e to 727e1f596b6b59700b4d286af9ca41747066685d.

This required a restore, wipe of Godeps/ and then a new save to accomplish instead of a simple godep update github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/....

This is confusing to most people I've talked to. I think we can do better.

[kevinburkeshyp]

@freeformz running into this same problem... just want to be sure, the recommended/only workaround is to blow away Godeps?

[freeformz]

@kevinburkeshyp do a restore, re-save without -r (or -r=false) to remove any rewrites if you have them and then blow away ./Godeps, then checkout any updated deps you want in your $GOPATH and then godep save everything again.

[freeformz]

This is also an issue when a package starts importing new packages too. For instance grpc 51d644aca6b8eca07b6bd2f5ea435998bf73fa92 to fea7689493da00c4590150b3534c256a962259d3

[radeksimko]

I also ran into this. Tried godep update github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/... and there was no change in the /vendor directory at all. The -v argument returned the following:

godep: not in manifest: github.com/aws/aws-go-sdk/...
godep: no packages can be updated

I just ended up running the following sequence of commands:

godep restore
# Remove all occurrences of `"ImportPath": "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws` from Godeps/Godeps.json
# Run `git checkout v1.1.15` from `$GOPATH/src/github.com/aws/aws-go-sdk`
godep save ./...

which did update both Godeps/Godeps.json and the /vendor directory.

[garethlewin]

The solution we have come up with is to cycle between

godep save ./...
godep update github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/...

until no changes happen in the vendor folder