[Bug 1063454] [NEW] Thanx VERY much for supplying a command that fails in the official doc

[Torsten Eichstädt]

Public bug reported:

"Those who know can not explain and those woh don't can not
understand..."

In https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/amd64/kernel-baking.html
The command "fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image" fails AFTER building the whole thing (i.e. after hours on a standard 3 year old laptop) because some name or version does not conform.

I understand that a program started as a bunch of shell scripts to aid a
maintainer does not cope with every case in an imperfect universe.  BUT
IF YOU WRITE A COMMAND IN AN OFFICIAL DOC TEST IT AT LEAST!

I needed, say, two or three hours to backport the patch to add TRIM/DISCARD for JFS filesystem from linux 3.7 to 3.2.
And I'm fighting the 3rd _day_ with wrong (not even outdated, simply wrong) docs and other peoples lack of sense for quality.

sudo tell me how to bake a kernel from git clone for ubuntu 12.04 with linux kernel 3.2 like
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/KernelGitGuide?action=show&redirect=KernelTeam%2FKernelGitGuide
(which I tried but that fails because out of a sudden the debian subdir disappears or the command fails for the same reason)

Luckily I'm too old to smash my laptop at the wall but my thoughts about the people writing the doc and the debian so-called "helper" tools go in that direction...
=|o)

** Affects: installation-guide (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: kernel kernelgitguide kernelteam

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Title:
  Thanx VERY much for supplying a command that fails in the official doc

Status in “installation-guide” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  "Those who know can not explain and those woh don't can not
  understand..."

  In https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/amd64/kernel-baking.html
  The command "fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image" fails AFTER building the whole thing (i.e. after hours on a standard 3 year old laptop) because some name or version does not conform.

  I understand that a program started as a bunch of shell scripts to aid
  a maintainer does not cope with every case in an imperfect universe.
  BUT IF YOU WRITE A COMMAND IN AN OFFICIAL DOC TEST IT AT LEAST!

  I needed, say, two or three hours to backport the patch to add TRIM/DISCARD for JFS filesystem from linux 3.7 to 3.2.
  And I'm fighting the 3rd _day_ with wrong (not even outdated, simply wrong) docs and other peoples lack of sense for quality.

  sudo tell me how to bake a kernel from git clone for ubuntu 12.04 with linux kernel 3.2 like
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile and
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/KernelGitGuide?action=show&redirect=KernelTeam%2FKernelGitGuide
  (which I tried but that fails because out of a sudden the debian subdir disappears or the command fails for the same reason)

  Luckily I'm too old to smash my laptop at the wall but my thoughts about the people writing the doc and the debian so-called "helper" tools go in that direction...
  =|o)

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