Is there any chance that the EPEL6 golang package can be updated to 1.8 or newer? More and more golang applications are starting to require newer golang versions in order to build.
I do plan on doing rebase to 1.9.2 after 1.7.6-2 hit stable repository. Bit unsure when it get there as I have requested push to stable ~week ago. See my post to epel-devel for more details. On more positive note I haven't heard any objection to the rebase yet. Also I do plan(if nobody else will step up to maintain Go in EPEL) to keep the 1.9.X around for all its life time in F27(roughly upstream support+6m).
golang-1.9.2-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-c0f2ea9e77
golang-1.9.2-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.