[ros-users] adding a new repository to rosdep

[Tully Foote]

Daniel,
I'm not sure exactly what your asking.

rosdep only searches inside your ROS checkout for definitions.  Any
definition can be added into the rosdep.yaml files in your stacks or
packages.  See http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep/rosdep.yaml for more details.


rosdep then uses your local package manager to query for packages available
on your system.  You can add package repositories to your system in any
standard way.  On Ubuntu you add the repo to your sources.list

If you are asking about whether you can build custom packages and add them
to a custom binary repo from which you can install them using the rosdep
infrastructure, it is possible but not recommended for anything planned to
be released.  This is because then you will have to update each machine to
add the debian repositories correctly.  This is not recommended for it
requires machine specific configuration, and reliance on a 3rdparty debian
repository for all users of the released code.  Also maintenance of all the
possible different varients of binary distributions is a great pain.  (multi
architecture as well as multi OS)

Tully

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Cabrini Hauagge <
daniel.hauagge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to add another repository to the ones rosdep uses to
> search for packages to install?
>
> DCH
>
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