Hi Lorenz, As Tully notes, the debian-building infrastructure is still in its baby stages. The source code for it is in various packages within "ros_installers": https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/installers/trunk There's a lot of extra, unused stuff in there, and there aren't instructions on setting up your own infrastructure yet. - Ken On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tully Foote wrote: > Hi Lorenz, > If you used rosinstall to install to ~/foo.  It is recommended to use > ~/rosinstall -u ~/foo.  This will go through and update all your source > checkouts in the rosinstall file.  As well as svn it also supports bzr and > git checkouts. > > As for the debian building infrastructure.  Right now it's not structured in > a way that a releasing it would be useful.  In the future we do plan to > streamline it and make it available. > > Tully > > 2010/3/9 Lorenz Mösenlechner >> >> Hi, >> >> great work! >> >> Is there already a tutorial on how to build these debian packages? We >> are still using debian lenny and I'm curious if it would be hard for >> us to build the packages for our platform. >> >> And as a second remark, I couldn't find documentation on how to update >> the new installation when it's not based on debian packages but the >> svn repositories. Since it is discouraged to use the 'all' repository >> now and the rosinstall script just checks out lot's of small >> repositories, going into every dir and doing an svn up seems to be >> quite cumbersome. I found an update option in rosinstall, but I >> couldn't find any documentation for it. But is it the recommended way >> to do the update? >> >> Thanks, >> Lorenz >> >> >> > Our first ROS Distribution release is here: Box Turtle. You can read >> > our announcement at: >> > >> > >> > http://www.ros.org/news/2010/03/ros-distributions-box-turtle-release.html >> > >> > Kudos to Morgan Quigley for bringing apt-get to ROS! >> > >> > For developers, we want to highlight a few more things that come with >> > this release. The first is that we are providing support (i.e. bug >> > fixes) for the 1.0 stacks in this release, which cover most of our >> > core capabilities, like navigation. >> > >> > Second, our bleeding edge development will be in the "Latest" release, >> > out of which we will hatch "C Turtle". >> > >> > We strongly encourage transitioning off of: >> > >> >  https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/all/ >> > >> > as it links against these bleeding-edge versions. Our ROS installation >> > instructions [1] provide 'rosinstall' files with several >> > configurations for SVN checkout. You can also fetch all of our >> > released stacks (including PR2 stacks) from: >> > >> >   https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/boxturtle/ >> > >> > Third, we want to say thank you, especially to the early adopters, for >> > sticking with us as ROS went through its growing pains to reach this >> > first distribution. We've done our best to take your feedback about >> > stability, documentation, and tutorials, and tried to roll it into our >> > first ROS distribution. There were many deprecations and changes along >> > the way, but we've now arrived at a new release process that >> > identifies stable libraries and provides an easier migration process >> > forward. We hope this will provide what you've been looking for. If >> > not, we're always listening for feedback. >> > >> > Finally, to repeat an administrative note, wg-ros-pkg/trunk/sandbox >> > has been emptied and deprecated packages deleted. We've created a >> > boxturtle branch of wg-ros-pkg/trunk [2] that you can checkout on top >> > of  Box Turtle. >> > >> > There are a lot of cool things in the works for C Turtle. In the >> > meantime, enjoy Box Turtle and let us know what you think! >> > >> >  -- your friendly neighborhood ROS turtle hatchery >> > >> > [1]: http://ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation >> > [2]: https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_boxturtle/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@code.ros.org >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > >> >> -- >> Lorenz Mösenlechner            | moesenle@in.tum.de >> Technische Universität München | Boltzmannstr. 3 >> 85748 Garching bei München     | Germany >> http://ias.cs.tum.edu/         | Tel: +49 (89) 289-17750 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > > -- > Tully Foote > Systems Engineer > Willow Garage, Inc. > tfoote@willowgarage.com > (650) 475-2827 > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >