Hugo modules working locally, but failng in Gitlab CI

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Hello!

I’m working on splitting our corporate doc portal into modules. It perfectly works on my local machine (MacOS), but fails in Gitlab CI with image mhart/alpine-node:14.17

$ go version
go version go1.21.5 linux/amd64
$ ./hugo version
hugo v0.121.1-00b46fed8e47f7bb0a85d7cfc2d9f1356379b740 linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-12-08T08:47:45Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
$ ./hugo mod get -u github.com/ratanoff/docs-platform
go: finding github.com/ratanoff/docs-platform latest
go: downloading github.com/ratanoff/docs-platform v0.0.0-20231226162903-dde71e156fdc
go: extracting github.com/ratanoff/docs-platform v0.0.0-20231226162903-dde71e156fdc
$ rm -rf ./public/*
$ ./hugo --config=config/main-config.toml,config/tags-config.toml,config/ru.toml
flag provided but not defined: -modcacherw
usage: go mod download [-json] [modules]
Run 'go help mod download' for details.
Total in 9 ms
Error: failed to load modules: failed to download modules: failed to execute 'go [mod download -modcacherw]': failed to execute binary "go" with args [mod download -modcacherw]: flag provided but not defined: -modcacherw
usage: go mod download [-json] [modules]
Run 'go help mod download' for details.
 *errors.errorString
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

go.mod in “main” repo:

module gitlab.loc/documentation/xsolla-docs

go 1.21

config in “main” repo

...
[module]
[[module.imports]]
  path = "github.com/ratanoff/docs-platform"
...

Thanks in advance!

2

What is the Go version running on GitLab CI? That flag was introduced since Go 1.14, so I guessed the GitLab CI Go version is too old?

3

go version is latest - go1.21.5

4

After some investigation I have found, that this flag was added in Hugo v0.118.0 as non-optional, so downgrade to v0.117.0 solved the problem.

@bep anyway, how we can adopt it in v0.121.1 to use all benefits of the latest version?

5

I am unable to reproduce the problem using this simple Dockerfile based on the golang:alpine3.19 image:

# Base image
FROM golang:alpine3.19

# Working directory
WORKDIR /project

# Install Git
RUN apk update && \
    apk add git && \
    git config --system --add safe.directory /project && \
    git config --system --add core.quotepath false

# Intall Node.js
RUN apk add nodejs npm && \
    mkdir /.npm && \
    chmod 777 /.npm

# Install Hugo
RUN apk add --repository=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community hugo
ENV HUGO_CACHEDIR="/cache"

This image contains:

  • hugo v0.121.1+extended
  • git 2.43.0
  • go 1.21.5
  • node v20.10.0
  • npm 10.2.5

So, the problem is with your image. Like @razon, I suspect you are not running Go 1.21 in your container.