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Re: plans for eclipse luna in debian



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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