Thank you Tully. I created an issue for this problem: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm/issues/90 Mani Monajjemi On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Tully Foote wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-release mailing list >> ros-release@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-release >> >> >