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Documentation tutorial error from wiki

asked 2016-11-10 16:52:59 -0500

kmhallen gravatar image

updated 2016-11-10 16:54:05 -0500

I am trying to submit several repositories for documentation following this tutorial: http://wiki.ros.org/rosdistro/Tutoria...

The command rosdistro_reformat file://$(pwd)/distribution.yaml fails with the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rosdistro_reformat", line 66, in <module>
    success = reformat_files(index)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdistro/verify.py", line 58, in reformat_files
    return verify_files(index_url, _reformat_files)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdistro/verify.py", line 67, in verify_files
    index = get_index(index_url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdistro/__init__.py", line 121, in get_index
    return Index(data, base_url, url_query=url_parts.query)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosdistro/index.py", line 47, in __init__
    assert data['type'] == Index._type, "Expected file type is '%s', not '%s'" % (Index._type, data['type'])
AssertionError: Expected file type is 'index', not 'distribution'

The error is the same if I rename distribution.yaml to foo.yaml.

I guess I could do the alphabetic sorting manually...

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answered 2016-11-10 17:11:17 -0500

William gravatar image

Make sure your version of python-rosdistro is up-to-date.

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Yes, python-rosdistro is up-to-date.

kmhallen gravatar image kmhallen  ( 2016-11-11 08:31:28 -0500 )edit
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answered 2019-10-16 02:40:01 -0500

Jari gravatar image

A note to the weary traveler that may find this one day: you need to run this on the index.yaml file at the root of rosdistro, not on the individual distribution.yaml file. Also if your formatting is correct it won't say "file changed but formatting ok" it'll instead say "Skipping identical file". This essentially means you're good. If not it will either fix it and show a diff or throw an error.

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