aws-otel-collector build fails caused by expired certificate in go.opencensus.io

[oleglypkan]

Describe the question
While trying to build aws-otel-collector-0.40.2 and aws-otel-collector-0.42.0 the build fails with because it cannot download dependent modules from go.opencensus.io due to expired TLS certificate.

Here is the build failure:

[release@99ca4b6dc892 aws-otel-collector]$ make package-rpm
cd /home/release/aws-otel-collector/tools/workflow/linters && GOBIN=/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports
cd /home/release/aws-otel-collector/tools/workflow/linters && GOBIN=/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin go install honnef.co/go/tools/cmd/staticcheck
cd /home/release/aws-otel-collector/tools/workflow/linters && GOBIN=/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint
cd /home/release/aws-otel-collector/tools/workflow/linters && GOBIN=/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin go install mvdan.cc/sh/v3/cmd/shfmt
cd /home/release/aws-otel-collector/tools/workflow/linters && GOBIN=/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin go install go.opentelemetry.io/build-tools/dbotconf
Static check finished successfully
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/release/aws-otel-collector'
Running target 'lint' in module 'testbed'
TOOL_BIN=/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin make -C testbed lint
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/release/aws-otel-collector/testbed'
go: downloading go.opencensus.io v0.24.0
/home/release/aws-otel-collector/bin/golangci-lint run --timeout 20m --enable gosec
WARN [runner] Can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter: buildir: failed to load package : could not load export data: no export data for "go.opencensus.io/plugin/ochttp" 
ERRO Running error: can't run linter goanalysis_metalinter
buildir: failed to load package : could not load export data: no export data for "go.opencensus.io/plugin/ochttp" 
make[2]: *** [../Makefile.Common:30: lint] Error 3
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/release/aws-otel-collector/testbed'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:48: testbed] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/release/aws-otel-collector'
make: *** [Makefile:196: golint] Error 2

Trying to install go.opencensus.io module manually shows that TLS certificate expired:

go install go.opencensus.io@latest
go: go.opencensus.io@latest: unrecognized import path "go.opencensus.io": https fetch: Get "https://go.opencensus.io/?go-get=1": tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid: current time 2025-01-23T15:06:39-08:00 is after 2025-01-21T03:43:04Z

There are similar issues created for other products affected by TLS certificate (googleapis/google-cloud-go#11481, aws/aws-k8s-tester#568) but the workaround was to use this setting GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'. However, proxy.golang.org is blocked in our corporate environment, so this workaround does not work for us.

So my question is: is there a way to complete this build successfully despite expired certificate?

Steps to reproduce if your question is related to an action

git clone https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector.git  
cd aws-otel-collector
make package-rpm

What did you expect to see?
The build succeeds

Environment
I am running the build on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2 instance.

Additional context
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