Currently we use a rosinstall generator for the source based install
instructions [1] which you could reuse. They use a server side generator at
this url:

http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=diamondback&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no

Where it supports variants in the rosdistro files as defined by REP 108 [2]
for diamondback.  And the overlay option says whether to generate the full
dependency list or just the variant requested.

We are working on a tool to make this much cleaner.  Hopefully this can be
helpful for now.

Tully

[1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Ubuntu/Source
[2] http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0108.html

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:

> 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 <froody@gmail.com> 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 <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
>>>
>>
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