As we warned when we released Box Turtle, the wg-ros-pkg/all external is no longer being supported. It is ill-defined now that we are doing regular distributions, each with their own sets of stacks. If you wish to still use SVN externals with a single URL, you can use the automatically updated externals here: https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/distro/ There are sets of URLs for each distribution, as well as sub-urls for each variant within the distribution. These URLs are very similar to the debian metapackages that we build for each distribution. For example, https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/distro/boxturtle/all/ would checkout all of the released boxturtle stacks, whereas https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/distro/boxturtle/base/ would only checkout the boxturtle stacks in the 'base' variant, and https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/distro/boxturtle/pr2/ would checkout all of the stacks in the pr2 variant, which includes the base variant. regards, Ken