Beat devguide typo

[ripleymj (Mike Ripley)]

I was attempting to follow the New Beat guide, and think there's a small typo. On https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/newbeat-getting-ready.html it says to clone to ${GOPATH}/src/elastic/beats. When you get to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/newbeat-generate.html it says to run python $GOPATH/src/github.com/elastic. A page later on https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/setting-up-beat.html, make setup seems to want $GOPATH/src/github.com/elastic as well.

Should the initial clone be listed as git clone https://github.com/elastic/beats ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/elastic/beats instead? When I tried this, the rest of the tutorial seemed to work better.

[exekias (Carlos Pérez Aradros)]

Uhm,

I think the tutorial is correcto, you need to clone Beats first to use the generator, then you run the generator from your beat folder.

What's the error you are getting?

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[ripleymj (Mike Ripley)]

ripleymj@host:~$ export GOPATH=/home/ripleymj/attempt2
ripleymj@host:~$ mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/elastic
ripleymj@host:~$ git clone https://github.com/elastic/beats ${GOPATH}/src/elastic/beats
Cloning into '/home/ripleymj/attempt2/src/elastic/beats'...
remote: Counting objects: 88874, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 88874 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 88868
Receiving objects: 100% (88874/88874), 76.12 MiB | 9.58 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (54106/54106), done.
ripleymj@host:~$ mkdir ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/ripleymj
ripleymj@host:~$ cd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/ripleymj
ripleymj@host:~/attempt2/src/github.com/ripleymj$ python $GOPATH/src/github.com/elastic/beats/script/generate.py
python: can't open file '/home/ripleymj/attempt2/src/github.com/elastic/beats/script/generate.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[ripleymj (Mike Ripley)]

Even reviewing the first page again (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/newbeat-getting-ready.html), the mkdir shows a github.com in the path, and the clone command does not.

[ripleymj (Mike Ripley)]

Sorry, I've just realized there is an existing pull request for this: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/6851