I tested on an Oneiric machine and can't reproduce, so it's hard for
me to say. I assume "pip install python-jenkins" fails for you?

You can try install python-jenkins via apt on Oneiric:

sudo apt-get install python-jenkins

After you do that, you can try pip install rosrelease again.

 - Ken

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kwc@bwl:~$ sudo pip install rosrelease -U
Downloading/unpacking rosrelease
  Downloading rosrelease-0.2.0.tar.gz
  Running setup.py egg_info for package rosrelease

Downloading/unpacking python-jenkins (from rosrelease)
  Downloading python-jenkins-0.2.tar.gz
  Running setup.py egg_info for package python-jenkins

... snip ....
Successfully installed rosrelease python-jenkins rospkg vcstools rosdep
Cleaning up...
kwc:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 11.10 \n \l

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>
>> Releasing into Fuerte, Unstable vs. Fuerte
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> We've been bringing up the new system as 'fuerte'. We've left
>> 'unstable' in place with the legacy system so that we can cross-verify
>> the two as well as enable stack maintainers to continue to release new
>> updates.
>>
>> We are now opening up 'fuerte' for your releases.  You will need a new
>> release script as the old create.py script depends on libraries that
>> have been moved.  Instructions are here:
>>
>> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/release
>>
>> We encourage you to release into 'fuerte' instead of 'unstable'.  Now
>> that the new system has landed, our integration efforts are focused on
>> the combined system.
>
> I tried to download rosrelease on Oneiric, but it failed:
>
> $ sudo pip install -U rosrelease
> [sudo] password for joq:
> Downloading/unpacking rosrelease
>   Downloading rosrelease-0.2.0.tar.gz
>   Running setup.py egg_info for package rosrelease
>
> Downloading/unpacking python-jenkins (from rosrelease)
>   Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement
> python-jenkins (from rosrelease)
> No distributions at all found for python-jenkins (from rosrelease)
> Storing complete log in /home/joq/.pip/pip.log
>
> --
>  joq