can not use function as type in Go

Question

I am trying run Ethereum from the sources (I want to trace the execution with a debugger) and I am having problems in compiling it. This is the error I am getting:

[niko@localhost sources]$  go run github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/config.go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1  --verbosity 5 --ipcdisable --port 40401 --rpc --rpcport 9101 --pprof --datadir=/home/niko/saved-niko-home/myeth/ --networkid=15 console 
# command-line-arguments
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/config.go:42: cannot use dumpConfig (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go:43: cannot use initGenesis (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go:60: cannot use importChain (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go:78: cannot use exportChain (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go:95: cannot use removeDB (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go:108: cannot use dump (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go:52: cannot use monitor (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go:50: cannot use importWallet (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go:96: cannot use accountList (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go:107: cannot use accountCreate (type func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error) as type func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) error in argument to utils.MigrateFlags
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go:107: too many errors
[niko@localhost sources]$ 
[niko@localhost sources]$ echo $GOPATH
/home/niko/sources/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/build/_workspace/:/home/niko/sources/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor:/home/niko/go
[niko@localhost sources]$ 

as you can see it complains that:

func(*"gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context)

is not the same as:

func(*"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/vendor/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1".Context) 

However, it is the same, because I copied it manually to /home/niko/go where all my Go packages reside:

[niko@localhost sources]$ find /home/niko/go -iname "*cli.v1*"
/home/niko/go/src/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1
/home/niko/go/pkg/linux_amd64/gopkg.in/urfave/cli.v1.a
[niko@localhost sources]$ 

And it is in my GOPATH

So, how do I get around this error, how do I tell Go that the package is the good one ?

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