Updates to go.mod needed in a loop, even after go mod tidy is run

[SamWhited]

Go version

go version go1.23.0 linux/amd64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='amd64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/sam/.cache/go-build'
GOENV='/home/sam/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/home/sam/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/sam/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='off'
GOROOT='/usr/lib/go'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.23.0'
GODEBUG='goindex=0'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/sam/.config/go/telemetry'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOAMD64='v1'
AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CXX='g++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/home/sam/Projects/mellium/xmpp/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build1238908215=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'

What did you do?

Tried to run my integration tests:

git clone git@codeberg.org:mellium/xmpp.git
cd xmpp
go test -v -tags "integration" -run Integration ...

Annoyingly, this only happens when running integration tests. This exact output happens after bumping the version in go.mod to 1.22 or 1.23, but a similar thing happens with the existing Go version (currently 1.18)

What did you see happen?

$ go test -v -tags "integration" -run Integration ...
go: updates to go.mod needed; to update it:
go mod tidy
$ go mod tidy
$ go test -v -tags "integration" -run Integration ...
go: updates to go.mod needed; to update it:
go mod tidy

What did you expect to see?

Tests run after running go mod tidy.

EDIT: everything appears to be working in CI, so maybe it's something to do with my setup or Arch specifically.

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues and Documentation

• modules: "updates to go.mod needed" when I test 1.20 code using 1.21+ #65751 (closed)
• cmd/go: run constantly fails and suggests 'go mod tidy' #41416 (closed)
• cmd/go: confusing error message when `go list` is missing checksums for patterns outside the main module #59755
• cmd/go: mod tidy doesn't remove unused dependencies in go.sum, in same cases #37842 (closed)
• cmd/go: mod tidy removes lines that build seems to need #31248 (closed)
• cmd/go: go test ./... or go build should not update existing dependencies and only add new dependencies as needed to satisfy imports #37780 (closed)
• x: keep versions syncronized #37840 (closed)
• cmd/go: 'go mod tidy' removes needed requirements when the module directory ends in '/testdata' #28481 (closed)
• cmd/go: require directive fails verifying local modules #33873 (closed)
• cmd/go: 'go mod tidy' retains sums for modules in the requirement graph but not the build list #39424 (closed)

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[seankhliao]

... targets every package in the dependency graph which, I assume this should have been ./...

[SamWhited]

I stared at this for ages trying to figure out where in the world that dependency came from and what the difference between CI and local was; that's it. Thanks!