There is work in this area, but it's more complicated than it seems. - Ken On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tom Birch wrote: > 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 wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Tom Birch 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >