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+cdist-type__go_get(7)
+=====================
+
+NAME
+----
+cdist-type__go_get - Install go packages with go get
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This cdist type allows you to install golang packages with go get.
+A sufficiently recent version of go must be present on the system.
+
+The object ID is the go package to be installed.
+
+
+REQUIRED PARAMETERS
+-------------------
+None.
+
+
+OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
+-------------------
+None.
+
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    __go_get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/...
+
+    # usually you'd need to require golang from somewhere:
+    require="__golang_from_vendor" __go_get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/...
+
+
+AUTHORS
+-------
+Kamila Součková <kamila@ksp.sk>
+
+
+COPYING
+-------
+Copyright \(C) 2017 Kamila Součková. You can redistribute it
+and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
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+cdist-type__golang_from_vendor(7)
+=====================
+
+NAME
+----
+cdist-type__golang_from_vendor - Install any version of golang from golang.org
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This cdist type allows you to install golang from archives provided by https://golang.org/dl/.
+
+See https://golang.org/dl/ for the list of supported versions, operating systems and architectures.
+
+This is a singleton type.
+
+
+REQUIRED PARAMETERS
+-------------------
+None.
+
+
+OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
+-------------------
+version
+    The golang version to install, defaults to 1.8.1
+
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    __golang_from_vendor --version 1.8.1
+
+
+
+AUTHORS
+-------
+Kamila Součková <kamila@ksp.sk>
+
+
+COPYING
+-------
+Copyright \(C) 2017 Kamila Součková. You can redistribute it
+and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.