[ros-users] Release tarballs for Fuerte

[Jack O'Quin]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Justin Bronder <jsbronder at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 28/09/12 17:13 -0700, Tully Foote wrote:
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> The equivalent data is available from the apt-get source or directly from
>> packages.ros.org in the browser (for example geometry can be found in the
>> new system at:
>> http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ros-groovy-geometry/ )
>
> This is a bit less than ideal but as long as those .orig.tar.gz files stay
> available after new releases and unchanged it'll work.  If there are plans
> for them to disappear after new releases perhaps you'd consider making them
> available in a similar fashion as before?
>
>>
>> For older versions you can pull it from the git buildpackage repositories
>> listed in the new rosdistro files:
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/releases/fuerte.yaml  We are
>> using the git-buildpackge infrastructure.
>>
>> From your email I'm assuming you're thinking of packaging for gentoo.  The
>> new system has been restructured to be more cleanly abstract packaging.
>>  And the release tool, bloom, has been designed to be extendable for
>> platforms other than debian ones.  If you'd like to start a discussion
>> about how to do that I suggest that you move it over to the buildsystem sig
>> mailing list.  http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning/Buildsystem
>
> I'll gladly join in the discussion over there if necessary.  However, as
> bloom seems to be based on git-buildpackage it really doesn't relate to a
> source based distribution such as Gentoo at all.  We really just need access
> to tarballs.

Catkin provides a source-based install mechanism. Some of us believe
source-based installs are important and should be supported as an
essential mechanism.

Others have different priorities. Therefore, your input could be helpful.
-- 
 joq