[ros-users] [Ros-developers] How do I add an additional package management system for an OS?

[Brian Gerkey]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:05 AM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see, so I would add the key value pair 'brew': HomebrewInstaller to the
> installers dictionary in the Osx class and rosdep will goto osx -> lion ->
> and select the first key that exists in the installers dictionary?

There will only be one installer for each (rosdep name, os name, os
version) tuple.

> So, I would need to comment out all macports references in the rosdep.yaml's
> in order for it to exclusively use brew?  For experimenting I just commented
> out the insertion of the MacportsInstaller into the installers dictionary in
> the Osx class.

That's what I was thinking, but following Tully's example below, you
could instead specialize each osx or macports rule to have both a
'snow/macports' definition and a 'lion/brew' definition.  That would
leave the current rules in place for Snow Leopard and head in the
direction of changing from macports to homebrew, starting with Lion.
I haven't tried homebrew, so I don't know whether to say that it's a
good way to go, but I'd be happy to try something other than macports.

The broader thing to note here is that we should try to agree on which
package manager we'll use on a given version of OS X to bring in
UNIX-style libraries.  I think that we'll be better off if we can
avoid mixing system dependencies from, for example, both macports and
homebrew.

	brian.

> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> From REP 111 [1] With the new format I would suggest as follows,
>> assuming "graphviz" is a package brew knows how to install.
>>
>> osx:
>>  lion:
>>    brew: graphviz