[ros-users] Geometry stack fail at rosinstall

[Ken Conley]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Wim Meeussen <meeussen at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> Installing https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/geometry/tags/cturtle  to /home/jmainpri/ros/stacks/geometry
>> svn: URL 'https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/geometry/tags/cturtle' doesn't exist
>> ERROR: Failed to install tree '/home/jmainpri/ros/stacks/geometry'
>>  vcs not setup correctly
>> are the servers down?
>> does anyone have an idea?
>
> The geometry stack moved from svn on ros.org to mercurial on google
> code. The problem here is that the rosinstall files that are referred
> to from the installation instructions are out of date.  Thanks
> Matthieu for filing a ticket.  I bumped up the priority to blocker,
> since at this point nobody can download ros from source.

I restored the tags for now.  Arguably, these don't need to be
deleted, no matter where the stack is currently being developed.  This
will let the rosinstall files work for now.

 - Ken