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Hello Daniel,

I also hope that debs will get released soon. Have you tried installing
`ros-buildfarm` in a virtualenv
​​. This [1] worked for me a couple of days ago when trying to run a
pre-release test.

Cheers,
Mani

[1] https://gist.github.com/mani-monaj/07646114fc275334503e

Mani Monajjemi

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Daniel Stonier via ros-release <
ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:

>
> Hi lads,
>
> Not able to do prereleases for indigo with Trusty. The current
> instrunctions on the prerelease page indicate to pull in
> python-ros-buildfarm (currently 0.2.0-1).
>
> However, running the prerelease script results in
>
> repository name component must match \"[a-z0-9]+(?:[._-][a-z0-9]+)*\"
>
>
> which is discussed in this mailing list thread
> <http://lists.ros.org/lurker/message/20150822.014945.11754273.en.html> by
> Jack, Tully and Mani and the referenced issue has seen a fix applied to
> python-ros-buildfarm here
> <https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/ros_buildfarm/pull/94>. However,
> this has yet to be released as a deb for Trusty.
>
> I downloaded the ros-buildfarm sources and tried installing that, however
> it seems that requires the python3 catkin dependencies which conflicts with
> the rest of the indigo system I have installed.
>
> Short of hacking the existing installed files I have with Mani's fix, is
> there a way I can actually get prereleases running?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
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