[Ros-release] ROS Fuerte Freeze Schedule Update

[Ken Conley]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a page listing all the Python scripts I need to work with the
>>> new fuerte build?
>>>
>>> I am burning much time finding and fixing them one at a time. Right
>>> now I am looking for `rosmake` so `rosinstall` can complete
>>> successfully.
>>
>> Correction: rosmake exists, it fails on the --rosdep-install
>
> Yeah, rosmake doesn't take --rosdep- options any more.  rosinstall is
> being updated to not pass them to rosmake.  In the meantime, you can
> work around it by passing '-n' to rosinstall (to make it not to the
> bootstrap build).  Then you should run rosdep separately (e.g.,
> 'rosdep -a -y'), before rosmake.  That's what our new devel_fuerte
> builds are doing, and they're mostly happy
> (http://build.willowgarage.com/view/devel_fuerte/).
>
>> Apparently, common_rosdeps is not yet in the Debian package repository.
>
> Looks like it's up-to-date in shadow-fixed, but the latest one hasn't
> been pushed public yet (http://www.ros.org/debbuild/fuerte.html).  I
> recommend switching to shadow-fixed (in
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list, replace '/ros/' with
> '/ros-shadow-fixed/', and apt-get update).  That repo generally has
> newer stuff.  You may sometimes need to switch back to the public ros
> repo, e.g., when a new debbuild gets kicked off (because it
> invalidates the contents of shadow-fixed for up to 10 hours).

I've resynced public now that we got a good rebuild last night.  You
probably want to avoid ros-shadow-fixed for the reasons Brian notes.
Please let me know if you see any other issues with Oneiric.

thanks,
Ken

>
>        brian.