Can you have different patches to source code, according to different
profiles?
If so, then probably it's possible to do what you say.


Il 16/02/2016 20:57, Thorsten Glaser ha scritto:
> 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

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