[ros-users] Indigo buildfarm ready for releases

Michael Fritscher michael.fritscher at telematik-zentrum.de
Mon Mar 31 16:21:27 UTC 2014


> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jose Luis Rivero
> <jrivero at osrfoundation.org
>> wrote:
>
>> On 03/31/2014 03:16 AM, William Woodall wrote:
>> > Thanks Jon!
>> >
>> > I appreciate you taking the time to put the chroot option together.
>> >
>> > What is the general consensus now that this chroot tutorial is
>> > available? Is this sufficiently functional to let maintainers test
>> their
>> > upcoming changes for Indigo on their Precise machines?
>> >
>>
>> Gazebo, or any other software that needs DRI enabled, can be run from a
>> chroot, but the chroot should have exactly the same versions in the X
>> stack in order to have a proper DRI support.
>>
>> For example, if you are using a Precise system and setup a Trusty
>> chroot, both using Ubuntu packages, based on my experience, DRI won't
>> work.
>>
>
> That is a good point, and we should mention it in Jon's chroot tutorial.
>
> I ported some of my low-level packages using the chroot approach already,
> so it is clearly helpful and useful.
>
> But, given the X server issues, I doubt that our UTexas research robot
> packages can be ported that way. Those packages use Gazebo, rviz and rqt
> heavily.
> --
>  joq
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Hi,
precise had got updated kernels and -stacks based on ubuntu 12-10, 13.04
and so on. I think there will be a package for trusty as well. Frther
information can be obtained under
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack. These should help you.

Best regards,
Michael Fritscher

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