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

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Marc

Am 18.07.25 um 23:42 schrieb Marc Haber:

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 02:17:50PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:

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?

I'd like to be able to build just one kernel flavor at a time, and for just one architecture.

https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec

As mentioned, you might achieve that with build profiles, even if this stretches the intended use cases for build profiles a little.

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