dependency on k8s.io/kubernetes cause build failure

[ymotongpoo]

My application is depending upon github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators/pkg/gpu/nvidia/metrics, and k8s.io/kubernetes is in its indirect dependencies. Because of it, go build command fails with the following messages.

go build
go: finding module for package github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators/pkg/gpu/nvidia/metrics
go: found github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators/pkg/gpu/nvidia/metrics in github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators v0.0.0-20201215190136-13a0dea71c2e
go: github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/container-engine-accelerators@v0.0.0-20201215190136-13a0dea71c2e requires
	k8s.io/kubernetes@v1.19.3 requires
	k8s.io/api@v0.0.0: reading k8s.io/api/go.mod at revision v0.0.0: unknown revision v0.0.0

The issue is already reported here (kubernetes/kubernetes#90358) but hopefully someone can conduct the workaround introduced in the issue thread.

[ruiwen-zhao]

Hi it seems that there is already a workaround suggested in the issue you linked (kubernetes/kubernetes#90358 (comment)), have you tried it?

[ymotongpoo]

I know that work around and what I'm asking is someone in this repo to do it, because k8s.io/kubernetes is not supposed to be depended by external packages but for ones under k8s.io.

Quoting from the thread (kubernetes/kubernetes#90358 (comment)):

This is caused by depending on k8s.io/kubernetes directly as a library, which is not supported.