Dropped support for Go 1.8

Fixed a deprecation warning

.travis.yml

@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ matrix:
   - go: 1.9.x
     env:
       - TEST_COMMAND="echo \"Tests disabled for this version of Go\""
-  - go: 1.8.x
-    env:
-      - TEST_COMMAND="echo \"Tests disabled for this version of Go\""
+  # NOTE: Clobber is no longer compatible with version 1.8.x
+  #- go: 1.8.x
+  #  env:
+  #    - TEST_COMMAND="echo \"Tests disabled for this version of Go\""
 
 # Setup caching
 cache:

patches/root.go

@@ -19,9 +19,14 @@ func Patch(packedPatches packr.Box, patchName string, fileToPatch string) error
 		return fileErr
 	}
 
+	// Load the patch
+	patch, patchErr := packedPatches.FindString(patchName + ".patch")
+	if patchErr != nil {
+		return patchErr
+	}
+
 	// Write the patch contents to the temporary file
-	// if _, writeErr := file.WriteString(packedPatches.String("buildpkg.patch")); writeErr != nil {
-	if _, writeErr := file.WriteString(packedPatches.String(patchName + ".patch")); writeErr != nil {
+	if _, writeErr := file.WriteString(patch); writeErr != nil {
 		os.Remove(tempFilePath)
 		return writeErr
 	}