Update https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection Inquiry

[Tim Gardner]

On 10/17/2012 07:13 AM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 06:34 AM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
>> Dear Ubuntu Kernel Team / Ubuntu Bug Control:
>>
>> Regarding https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection , I and other
>> linux package original reporters (ex.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1029790 ) have
>> encountered problems when following the directions for this article.
>>
>> For example, what happens is when one executes the following at a
>> terminal:
>> git bisect start Ubuntu-3.2.0-14.23 Ubuntu-3.2.0-15.24
>>
>> the debian and debian.master folders get deleted by this command.
>> However, the
>> next step in the article
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Give_this_test_a_version_number
>>
>> mentions that one would want to edit debian.master/changelog.
>>
>> This inconsistency is not discussed in the article, confuses and
>> frustrates first time bisectors, prevents them from performing their
>> own bisect, and requires them to seek support via
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam#Communications .
>>
>> Unfortunately, I am not well versed in git bisect to understand why
>> this is happening, should this be happening, and how to create a better
>> article to prevent first time bisectors from getting stuck on this
>> problem in the future.
>>
>> How do you think the article could be improved given this problem?
>>
>> Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter and I look
>> forward to your response.
>>
>> -- 
>> Christopher M. Penalver
>> E-Mail: christopher.penalver at gmx.com
>> https://launchpad.net/~penalvch
>>
>>
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> There are some scripts(Mainline-build-one for example) in the
> kteam-tools repository[0] that create the debian specific directories. 
> I'll spend some time and update the kernel bisect wiki.
> 

Joe - you should probably mention in the wiki that bisecting across
non-linear tags is usually a bad idea. Also some thoughts on gross
bisection by installing the various upstream stable builds would be
helpful. That narrows the bisection focus to upstream v.s. Ubuntu patches.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com