Upgrade rules_go to 0.16.0

[jmillikin-stripe]

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Description:
The build is using a rules_go commit from around 0.15 -- this PR bumps it up to the 0.16 point release.

Risk Level: Low
Testing: CI
Docs Changes: n/a
Release Notes: n/a

Signed-off-by: John Millikin [email protected]

[moderation]

@jmillikin-stripe This has already been merged but for consistency sake this should be:

    io_bazel_rules_go = dict(
        sha256 = "d0e51353639cd6ea43e614d80c29d3f7f318e88dbbc28c4d8c07b129b46e20c0",
        strip_prefix = "rules_go-0.16.0",
        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/archive/0.16.0.tar.gz"],
    ),

[jmillikin-stripe]

Why? That's the URL for Github's auto-generated tarballs, which aren't uploaded by the maintainer and can change their sha256 when Github's tar/gzip libs are upgraded. Using the uploaded tarball is more stable and more trustable (the maintainer can provide the sha).

[moderation]

Recently bazel/repository_locations.bzl was updated (#4779) to change all artifacts that aren't referred to by commit (either because we pin to a particular release or the projects don't do releases) to the method I refer too. The approach is documented at https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/master/bazel/EXTERNAL_DEPS.md#distdir---prefetching-dependencies.

With the exception of your PR all references to artifacts adhere to this approach.

The following dependencies don't provide maintainer uploaded tarballs - bombela/backward-cpp, Cyan4973/xxHash, eile/tclap, gabime/spdlog, gcovr/gcovr, grpc/grpc, opentracing/opentracing-cpp, lightstep/lightstep-tracer-cpp, pallets/markupsafe, Tencent/rapidjson, google/googletest & google/subpar.

Maybe we change the doco to say use maintainer uploaded tarballs if they exist?

[mattklein123]

Sorry I approved this without looking at it carefully. @jmillikin-stripe it would be good to make it match the others.

[jmillikin-stripe]

Sorry, could you explain in more detail why you need to use Github's auto-generated tarball instead of the official release tarball? Both should be acceptable to --distdir. Is there a script somewhere that only works if the URL contains a SHA1-shaped hex blob? If so, we should fix that.

[mattklein123]

Sorry I don't know the details here. @htuch @lizan ^ ?

[moderation]

Doing a further review of bazel/repository_locations.bzl the only repositories in addition to rules_go that provide maintainer uploaded artifacts are:

1. bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle
2. fmtlib/fmt (zip format - need to check if this works)
3. golang/protobuf (currently pinned to a commit and will be removed when rules_go picks up the required commit)

None of the dependencies at api/bazel/repositories.bzl do.

Proposal - convert 1 and 2 of the above dependencies to the method @jmillikin-stripe used for rules_go and update bazel/EXTERNAL_DEPS.md to state that we should use maintainer provided artifacts and sha's when available.

[htuch]

@moderation that seems reasonable. I don't have a strong argument to use GH tarballs vs. official releases, presumably it's preferred to use the blessed official releases all things being equal.

[lizan]

TBH it doesn't matter GH tarballs vs. maintainer uploaded releases as long as we defined them with sha256 sum. Though I don't have any preference if @moderation feels strong for that I'm fine with that.