On 28/09/12 17:13 -0700, Tully Foote wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> The equivalent data is available from the apt-get source or directly from
> packages.ros.org in the browser (for example geometry can be found in the
> new system at:
> http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ros-groovy-geometry/ )

This is a bit less than ideal but as long as those .orig.tar.gz files stay
available after new releases and unchanged it'll work.  If there are plans
for them to disappear after new releases perhaps you'd consider making them
available in a similar fashion as before?

> 
> For older versions you can pull it from the git buildpackage repositories
> listed in the new rosdistro files:
> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/releases/fuerte.yaml  We are
> using the git-buildpackge infrastructure.
> 
> From your email I'm assuming you're thinking of packaging for gentoo.  The
> new system has been restructured to be more cleanly abstract packaging.
>  And the release tool, bloom, has been designed to be extendable for
> platforms other than debian ones.  If you'd like to start a discussion
> about how to do that I suggest that you move it over to the buildsystem sig
> mailing list.  http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning/Buildsystem

I'll gladly join in the discussion over there if necessary.  However, as
bloom seems to be based on git-buildpackage it really doesn't relate to a
source based distribution such as Gentoo at all.  We really just need access
to tarballs.

Thanks,


> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>wrote:
> 
> > For electric and earlier I used to be able to download source tarballs from
> > https://code.ros.org/svn/release/download/stacks/.  I just started to
> > look at
> > packaging up Fuerte and I'm not seeing any of the newer releases in the
> > same
> > location.  A quick google turns up nothing.
> >
> > So, are these available somewhere, and if not, can they be made available?

-- 
Justin Bronder