Hi Mani,

You're right that it's the target distro you want to test your code inside
the docker environment.

That sounds like a bug in the prerelease generation script. I see the same
error. Please file a ticket here:
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm and we'll try to trace
it down. It seems that the lookup of valid os code names is failing.

Tully

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Mani Monajjemi via ros-release <
ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been trying to use the new prerelease system prior to releasing a
> package to ROS Jade. The host machine is running 64bit Ubuntu Trusty and
> it's been setup to run the prerelease tests based on the documentation on
> ROS wiki.
>
> It is not quite clear to me what this option do in the second step of
> prerelease setup wizard: "Version of Ubuntu to test in". Does it specify
> the host machine's Ubuntu distro or does it specify the base distro for the
> pre-release environment (e.g. Docker image to download)? My intuition is it
> should be the latter.
>
> The issue is, whenever I generate a pre-release command for Ubuntu Vivid
> or Utopic, the command fails with "ros_buildfarm.common.JobValidationError"
> error. (Full output here:
> https://gist.github.com/mani-monaj/e14629a83f82ace59cf4). Everything
> works fine when I use Trusty as the distro.
>
> - Mani
>
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