Re: Building multiple flavors of a package with a HUGE upstream

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

Marc Haber wrote:
> I would like to build differnt "flavors", lets call them linux-server,
> linux-vm, linux-desktop and linux-notebook. But I'd like to have them
> from - at least - the same .orig.tar.gz, just for the reason that this
> file is about 150 MB large.

Is there a reason to have multiple source packages, rather than having
one source package that builds multiple binaries?

You could store all the config files in debian/, iterate over them, and
build and install the files for the corresponding linux-image binary
package.

Also, *in theory* you shouldn't need a separate linux-headers and
linux-libc-dev package for each of these, just one for all of them.