go 1.22.6 workspace cannot upgrade modules anymore using go get -u ./... getting error: package foo/bark is not in std (/usr/local/go/src/foo/bark)

[khanakia]

Go version

go version go1.22.6 darwin/arm64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='arm64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/Volumes/D/khanakia/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Volumes/D/khanakia/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/Volumes/D/khanakia/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY='github.com/theuxm'
GONOSUMDB='github.com/theuxm'
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Volumes/D/khanakia/go'
GOPRIVATE='github.com/theuxm'
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/usr/local/go'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.22.6'
GCCGO='gccgo'
AR='ar'
CC='clang'
CXX='clang++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/dev/null'
GOWORK='/Volumes/D/khanakia/Downloads/workspace/go.work'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/sk/k6vkn27d2xbcxcj1ll6dvwjw0000gn/T/go-build3767486900=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'

What did you do?

I am using Golang workspaces and when try to upgrade the modules inside the workspace it does not work
Before it was working in older versions of golang

1. Clone this repo https://github.com/khanakia/goworkspace1
2. Run below command

cd hello
go get -u ./...

What did you see happen?

➜  hello go get -u ./...
go: hello imports
	foo/bark: package foo/bark is not in std (/usr/local/go/src/foo/bark)

What did you expect to see?

It should upgrade the module

require github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0
to
require github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues and Documentation

• go get -v broken after upgrade go1.13.0 #34058 (closed)
• cmd/go: go get -u can't upgrade packages with invalid or non-existent versions in go.mod #45527
• cmd/go: module dependencies not updated with `go get -u` in 1.17 #47768 (closed)
• cmd/go: go get return error if there is no func main() in the current working directory #52179 (closed)
• cmd/go: Setting up a go workspace breaks building #57738 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: updates to go.sum needed, disabled by -mod=readonly with experimentalWorkspaceModule #44097 (closed)
• cmd/go: can't invoke go in src directory #67853 (closed)
• cmd/go: make the error from 'go get -u' more helpful when the current directory does not contain a package #34079
• cmd/go: get -u pulls in unreferenced v2 version #32495 (closed)
• x/pkgsite: TestFetchModule/stdlib_module failing #40197 (closed)

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[seankhliao]

This has not worked since at least go1.16 (I didn't check further back).
I think this is expected behavior when you don't have a require for the other module, go get inherently queries for a remote source.

Closing as working as intended

[RassulYunussov]

Hi @seankhliao
But how are we supposed to update dependencies then for a sub module of a workspace?

[RassulYunussov]

replace instruction in mod file helps

example:
replace shared => ../shared