Tully, 

Thanks for the advice. I ended up modifying rosdep.yaml and commenting out the relevant macports dependencies. This seemed to work perfectly. 

--Nick 


On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Tully Foote wrote:

> Nick,
> I think the --nobuild option will work for you.  This will prevent it 
> from trying to bootstrap the core packages.  Note, you will have to do 
> this manually. 
> 
> Tully
> 
> Nicholas Butko wrote:
>> Is there a way to bypass the dependency install step of rosinstall? 
>> 
>> After reformatting my hard drive, I am trying to reinstall ros on OSX.  This time around, I am especially keen to minimize my port installs and python versions. I prefer to use easy_install with the system python instead, wherever possible. 
>> 
>> Unfortunately rosinstall wants to install lots of ports, even though I have the relevant python packages (pyyaml and paramiko) already installed. 
>> 
>> --Nick 
>> 
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