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Suppose I have Drupal and CiviCRM installations to automate.

These, however, need particular configs for working together (some file edits and database configs)

Should I make a fixed version install (eg. Drupal 4.7.5 + CiviCRM 4.5.6), install them and configure, and then save the edited files plus database?

Or should I put more effort in my build script and make some queries and seds to edit those configs in the database and files?

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    Drupal 4.7.5 ... really? That's a release from Jan 5, 2007 ... Are you familiar with what (the scary) Drupal 7.32 was all about?
    – Pierre.Vriens ♦
    Commented Apr 24, 2017 at 18:54
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    @Pierre.Vriens sorry, I didnt check versions, were just example numbers
    – JorgeeFG
    Commented Apr 24, 2017 at 23:42

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Your question sounds like you should have a look at what I call Features Configuration Management, aka FCM. FCM is not only about using Drupal's Features module, and not about Configuration Management (as introduced in Drupal version 8). Instead, it is a special case of Software Configuration Management, aka SCM, applied to Drupal.

Mostly because Features can be considered as a code generator, whereas that generated code may be considered as the build script (as in your question). Which can then also be used to be migrated through multiple environments.

Have a look at my (popular) answer to "How to use the Features module in a 3 dev environments?" for (way) more details about all this.

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