imports context: unrecognized import path "context" about collectd_exporter HOT 9 CLOSED

Hi @flyinva,

the context package has been added in Go 1.7 and is required to build collectd_exporter.

Best regards,
—octo

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export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

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@padgyx I had the exact same error on centos 7. It runs a very old version of golang (1.6.3) I used this repo and instructions to update, and its working well:
https://go-repo.io/

specifically:

sudo rpm --import https://mirror.go-repo.io/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-GO-REPO
curl -s https://mirror.go-repo.io/centos/go-repo.repo | tee /etc/yum.repos.d/go-repo.repo
sudo yum update golang

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Go 1.7 is only available in Debian testing. I will have to wait some times for this version in backports.

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It's very unfortunate that there is no good transition path from the old (experimental) x/net/context package and the Go 1.7 context package :\

One thing we can consider is add an appropriate build constraint, like:

// +build go1.7

However, the error message when building with earlier versions of Go is something along the lines of:

go build github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter: no buildable Go source files in $GOPATH/src/github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter

I'm not sure this error message is an improvement though :\

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collectd_exporter can be build with Go 1.7 on Debian SID (and probably any other distrib) and run on Debian Jessie.

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go get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/promtool
package context: unrecognized import path "context" (import path does not begin with hostname)

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I'm having the exact same problem and I'm running go version go1.2.1 linux/amd64 on Ubuntu 14 virtual machine.

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You generally need the latest version of Go when building Go components of Prometheus, with the exception of using client_golang which currently supports back to Go 1.7.

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