On Tue, 16 Feb 2016, Luca Vercelli wrote: > I don't know what are "build profiles" :(
Then ask before thinking ;-) > however I dont' think so, Mayyyyybe. With build profiles, you have something similar to Maven profiles in that you can: • have different Build-Depends (on the debian/control side) • generate less and/or different binary packages • have different code (in debian/rules you can switch on a new environment variable DEB_BUILD_PROFILES so you can use two (partially or even completely) different recipes for building while using the same source This is intended especially for bootstrapping and cross-builds: you first compile with the bootstrap profile enabled, then do whatever is needed to get the full profile working, then build it without the bootstrap profile, superseding the bootstrapping upload. (It’s intended that way, to be used to break dependency cycles and bootstrap, not to flavourise packages inside just one distribution… though I wish I could have a distro-specific default profile so there were no delta between Debian and the-derivate- which-cannot-be-named-from-Canonical any more, for one of mine.) bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
