CI: golangci is broken with go canary (1.24RC)

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Description

The core of the issue is that golangci is unable to work properly with a go version that is higher than the one it has been built with, resulting in hogging memory / CPU.

This can be reproduced locally on a laptop:

• install go 1.24RC
• download binary curl -sSfLO https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/releases/download/v1.62.2/golangci-lint-1.62.2-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

Then:

dmp@Synchronicity:~/Projects/go/nerd/nerdctl$ go version
go version go1.24rc1 darwin/arm64

dmp@Synchronicity:~/Projects/go/nerd/nerdctl$ time GOOS=linux /Users/dmp/tmp/golangci-lint-1.62.2-darwin-arm64/golangci-lint run
^C^C

real	2m10.275s
user	5m25.968s
sys	3m23.894s

vs.

dmp@Synchronicity:~/Projects/go/nerd/nerdctl$ go version
go version go1.23.4 darwin/arm64

dmp@Synchronicity:~/Projects/go/nerd/nerdctl$ time GOOS=linux /Users/dmp/tmp/golangci-lint-1.62.2-darwin-arm64/golangci-lint run

real	0m27.558s
user	1m38.488s
sys	0m47.445s

I have no idea what kind of voodoo golangci is doing, but clearly their binary installs are not usable for our purpose.

Solutions are either: the golangci github action offers to build / install instead of downloading pre-built (and that would work with go1.24), or we figure out how to install manually and remove the action, or we stop linting for canary (would be sad...).

It is unclear to me ATM if there will be unforeseen issues with 1.24 wrt golangci - from a glimpse, it seems that it is just fine and maps are just sugar.

Steps to reproduce the issue

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Describe the results you received and expected

na

What version of nerdctl are you using?

main

Are you using a variant of nerdctl? (e.g., Rancher Desktop)

None

Host information

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Added notes:

• golangci DOES compile just fine against golang 1.24
• using the action to go install is a no-go, as you cannot separate GOOS for install and runtime phases... :/

The action install mechanism does not provide much value.

Suggesting we just drop that part and install normally.