Unable to use Orb with Alpine

[FriedCircuits]

The orb uses the --gunzip option with tar but that is unsupported in Alpine's version of tar. It does however support -z. This should be updated to use the more compatible parameter.

See:

go-orb/src/scripts/install.sh

Line 26 in 6ed27bc

| $SUDO tar --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 --gunzip -x -C /usr/local/go/

Error is tar: unrecognized option: gunzip

Thanks.

Edit:

Also the same for --no-same-owner should be -o.

[david-montano-circleci]

Hello @FriedCircuits . Supporting golang in Alpine turned to be harder than expected because of the following:

• The available binaries in the golang release page do not include a binary of golang compatible with the Alpine filesystem, in particular with the muslibc implementation of C.
• Adding Alpine, or a specific Linux distribution, logic to this orb would be out of scope given that Linux distributions might have some dependencies installed or not.
  If using Alpine I would rather recommend installing the tool using apk add go.
  Once installed you can use other commands available in this orb.

[FriedCircuits]

@david-montano-circleci

Thanks for the reply. I tried to use apk first but Alpine ships an older version of go. Using the orb was a last resort. Alpine has the short form of those options vs the full name. I used the script from the orb and changed those options and it works fine.

[david-montano-circleci]

I will update the orb to build the go binary in Alpine with support from go 1.13 up.