Version 0.5.17 of rosinstall has been released.  You can update using the commands below.  This release contains numerous bug fixes, as well as the experimental rosws being discussed in another thread on this mailing list.  

Please try it out and provide feedback on the new rosws tool and new roslocate with distro specific options.  .  

Update commands:

sudo pip install -U rosinstall 

or

sudo easy_install -U rosinstall

Tully

--
Tully Foote
Systems Engineer
Willow Garage, Inc.
tfoote@willowgarage.com
(650) 475-2827