Although kerntypes is required if you use lcrash, it is not if you use crash, or netdump. Since you may not be using lcrash or may be using lcrash, but on another system, installing Kerntypes into /boot isn't always necessary. Looking closer at the patch, Troy noticed that it only does the install for some architectures (ie. i386 and s390).
The instructions that come with lkcdutils (in the README.Debian) tell you how to properly deal with the kerntypes file. Ideally, we would like to keep the patch as close to upstream as possible, or come up with a debian specific patch that does things, such as this patch. The latter would be separate from the upstream patch, and seems like a lot of work to do and maintain just to take away the simple step from the README.Debian file in lkcdutils. In any case, this bug should be a wishlist bug, and we could send it upstream if you like, but chances are they will give a similar reason why this should not be done. On Tue, 01 Mar 2005, Russell Stuart wrote: > -- no debconf information > > kernel-patch-lkcd-7.0.2 doesn't build Kerntypes for the 2.6 > kernel series. I see you did include some of my patches to > do this - but not all of them. > > You can find the fixed patches as usual at: > > http://iinet-brisbane.lubemobile.com.au/ras/debian/sarge/kernel-patch-lkcd > http://adsl-brisbane.lubemobile.com.au/ras/debian/sarge/kernel-patch-lkcd > > Fixing the Kerntypes problem is the only change. I > have ensured 2.6.8, 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 all build with > the new version. > >
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