[ros-users] question about rosinstall

Huan Liu liuhuanjim013 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 18:03:24 UTC 2010


Ignore the last question. What I'm trying to do is to try out the
package that is currently being developed, but there's a released
version of the same package. What shall I do to not have them conflict
with each other without removing the released version? Is it possible?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Huan Liu <liuhuanjim013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Kevin!
> The old rosinstall works flawlessly! One more question:
> When I try to roslaunch a file I just rosinstalled, why is it looking
> for the file in /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks instead of my package path,
> which is in ROS_PACKAGE_PATH?
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Watts <watts at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> Huan-
>>     Just use the normal version of rosinstall, the "new" version isn't out,
>> because it's not ready. If you look in the "new" version, the "overlay"
>> option is ignored. This is probably causing the ROS_ROOT to fail.
>>
>> I've ticketed this here:
>> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2891
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Huan Liu <liuhuanjim013 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear fellow ROS users,
>>>
>>> When I try to use rosinstall to check out code with an overlay file,
>>> rosinstall complains about No ROS_ROOT defined, while the environment
>>> variable has been properly set up.
>>>
>>> I am looking at the following tutorial:
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosinstall/NewVersion
>>>
>>> I suspect that I haven't added the rosinstall layout to the directory
>>> where I check out the code. However, when I try to add a rosinstall
>>> layout, it complains about maximum recursion depth exceeded.
>>>
>>> I'm running ROS 1.1.14. Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Huan
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