[Ros-release] Debian packaging issue

[Ken Conley]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Bill Morris
<bill at iheartengineering.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 12:19 -0700, Ken Conley wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Bill Morris
>> <bill at iheartengineering.com> wrote:
>> > I'm not sure if this is the right place.
>> >
>> > We are trying to fix a bug and running into a problem.
>> > http://kforge.ros.org/turtlebot/trac/ticket/134
>> > If we have a post install script to edit the launch files, how do we
>> > prevent the launch files from being wiped out when a user updates their
>> > system.
>> >
>> > So as far as I can tell it looks like launch files are not correctly
>> > marked as config files in the Debian.
>> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#conffiles
>> >
>> > Is this problem solvable in the near term?
>>
>> AFAIK, it's not solvable for any packages/stacks that use the legacy
>> rosbuild system.
>
> Is it solvable with catkin?

It's solvable with any handbuilt, whitelist installation mechanism,
which includes Catkin, but really anything that has greater control
over the sourcedeb creation in order to mark the flags that you wish
to mark.

 - Ken

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