Fix go install method of installation

[luhring]

Summary

Cosign's installation instructions tell users to run go install github.com/sigstore/cosign/cmd/cosign@latest. This installation method appears to have been broken since fb04df8 (via #637), when a replace directive was added to go.mod.

The replace block was downgrading a few K8s modules (k8s.io/api, k8s.io/apimachinery, and k8s.io/client-go) to a slightly older version (from v0.22.1 to v0.21.4). Presumably, this was done because #637 also introduced a dependency on the module knative.dev/pkg, which is not compatible with v0.22.1 of the K8s modules.

A more stable alternative solution to this problem is to adjust the K8s module versions in the require block to the desired version (v0.21.4). Because of how MVS works, once none of the K8s modules in the module graph need a version as new as v0.22.1, Go will select version v0.21.4 for these modules, which resolves the issue with knative.dev/pkg, which allows all cosign builds to succeed.

Thus, this PR makes the above updates to the require block and removes the replace block.

Testing

This fix can be verified in a clean environment via Docker. This command installs Cosign using a testing branch in my fork of Cosign:

docker run --rm --env 'GOPRIVATE=github.com/luhring/cosign' golang:1.16 sh -c 'go install github.com/luhring/cosign/cmd/cosign@fix-go-install--testing && cosign --help'

This test:

• uses Go 1.16, but I've also tested with 1.17
• sets GOPRIVATE in order to bypass the Go proxy, to ensure the fork code is used directly
• uses a slightly different branch than this PR uses: fix-go-install--testing. This is because I needed to set the module name in go.mod to github.com/luhring/cosign so that go install doesn't error out early.
• should show Cosign's CLI help at the end if the installation was successful

Ticket Link

Fixes #588

Release Note

Fix go install method of installation

Signed-off-by: Dan Luhring [email protected]

[dlorenc]

Wow, thank you! This is great work!