go_vendor_archive_create(1)

✨ go_vendor_archive_create(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for go_vendor_archive_create 💖 this is the create subcommand of go_vendor_archive, and it's literally the moment you've been waiting for: making reproducible Go vendor archives. yes. reproducible. the same archive every single time. it's giving deterministic queen 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

go_vendor_archive create — create reproducible Go vendor archives 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

go_vendor_archive create [OPTIONS...] PATH

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• PATH — the path you want to build a vendor archive for, bestie. and the way that it can be one of three things:
  1. a Go source tree that has a go.mod file 🍓
  2. a path to a (compressed) tar archive 🎀
  3. a path to a specfile. SOURCE0 will automatically be unpacked ✨
• --config PATH — path to the config file 🌈
• --write-config — after the archive is made, write out a config file based on the CLI options you just used. so it remembers your vibe for next time 😌
• -O OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT — where the vendored tarball goes. and here's the cute part: when PATH is a specfile (and python3-specfile is installed), the name of SOURCE1 becomes the output if you didn't explicitly say one. otherwise it's ./vendor.tar.bz2 by default. periodt 💅
• -p / --use-module-proxy, --no-use-module-proxy — whether to use the Google Go module proxy. defaults to true, or whatever is set in go-vendor-tools.toml. iykyk 🫶
• -I, --idempotent — only generate the archive if OUTPUT doesn't already exist. no re-doing work that's already done, we love a low-effort icon 😭
• --compression COMPRESSION TYPE — the compression type, like tar (uncompressed), gz, bz2, or zstd. by default the compression type gets detected from OUTPUT's extension 🧚
• --compresslevel COMPRESSLEVEL (int) — the compression level as an integer, for the compression algorithms that actually support that setting ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

go-vendor-tools is maintained by Maxwell G and the Fedora Go SIG <golang@lists.fedoraproject.org>. want more info about go-vendor-tools? it's at <https://fedora.gitlab.io/sigs/go/go-vendor-tools> 💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go_vendor_archive(1), go_vendor_archive_override(1), go-vendor-tools.toml(5) 🌟

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was go_vendor_archive_create(1), dated 2026-04-22, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section. go make some reproducible archives, you absolute legend 💖✨🦋