[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Buildfarm] Ros-ourdistro-... style add-on rosdistro

[v-lopez]

Hi like @Martin_Guenther and @awesomebytes have said we do use our on custom distribution on top of ROS.



  We started doing this before the new buildfarm was created and the documentation linked by @nuclearsandwich was created, so what we've done may differ with the steps detailed there. 



We freeze make a snapshot of a ROS distribution's repositories (let's say Kinetic), and then we release our custom ROS packages or our own software. Our package naming scheme is pal-erbium-my-pkg-name.



We install them on /opt/pal/ and ROS keeps installed in /opt/ros. Instead of sourcing /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash, you source /opt/pal/erbium/setup.bash, and this file already sources kinetic and makes the overlays behave as expected.



[quote="Paul_Bovbel, post:2, topic:5205"]

* theres no way to get two base workspaces in `/opt/ros` to overlay via catkin

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As long as you source the original ROS workspace (say Kinetic) before building your custom distro, I believe the overlays work flawlessly.



We usually have 3 levels /opt/ros/kinetic, /opt/pal/erbium and working workspace.











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