How to release go binary to github personal repo

Getting Help
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I made a hack change in ko and would like to install my modified version with go get (I can’t just build locally because eventually it needs to go into a Dockerfile). Currently I put a hack release in

github.com/cathyzhyi/ko/releases/tag/v1.9.8

and tried with

go get -v  github.com/cathyzhyi/ko/cmd/ko@v1.9.8

However, seems go get can’t find the binary I uploaded but still look for the official release. The output is the following

go: found github.com/cathyzhyi/ko/cmd/ko in github.com/cathyzhyi/ko v1.9.8
go: finding module for package github.com/google/ko/pkg/commands
go: found github.com/google/ko/pkg/commands in github.com/google/ko v0.6.0

The changes I made are here https://github.com/cathyzhyi/ko/commit/4570765c7eff6a3c5ad425a577d7cc4169c0be05
The package name in go.mod is updated to github.com/cathyzhyi/ko
How can I get go get to download my version of ko? I think I need to upload the binary to a specific location that go get can find.

2

I think you need to change the package name in the go.mod file.

3

do you mean something like this?

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4

Can you work outside of Dockerfile (to me, a kind of release manager) for the time being? To reduce debugging considerations.

If you pull from here: GitHub - cathyzhyi/ko: Build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes, yes! Or you can use relative pathing in go.mod and point it to a local copy of the cathyzhyi/ko. Something like:

replace gitlab.com/google/ko => ../cathyzhyi/ko

before the require clauses.

5

Thanks for the help! I think I didn’t make my question clear though. I was trying to release the ko binary to github so that a container can use go get to install it.
I find a much simpler way to do it by just using wget to download the modified ko binary.