Ah thanks! This really seems like something rosinstall should be doing.

cheers,
Tom

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Tom Birch <froody@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That works fine if it's a package with no unsatisfied dependences, but
> > installing other stacks/packages like say, the kinematics package
> > (http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinematics) then I have to manually checkout
> all of
> > those dependencies.
> > I can see that roslocate can tell me where to checkout a package from,
> but I
> > don't understand how to feed that into rosinstall. Do I just do
> "roslocate
> > info $packagename > foo.rosinstall; rosinstall /path/to/install
> > file://`pwd`/foo.rosinstall"?
> > I found the install scripts at http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/ but that
> > seems rather hacky, is this the recommended way of doing things? If so,
> why
> > are there no diamondback files there?
> > I'd really appreciate someone taking the time to explain this to me,
> because
> > really none of it makes sense, and the wiki seems to imply that it's
> trivial
> > to get stacks/packages listed on the wiki.
>
> There is a relatively detailed explanation here...
>
>  http://answers.ros.org/question/165/for-new-package-downloading
> --
>  joq
>