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creating metapackage

asked 2019-05-02 03:11:24 -0500

JMM
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Is there any good reference for creating metapackage? Or Is there any command like catkin_create_pkg for creating normal package?

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Is http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/package.xm... enough?

As it states:

A metapackage is a normal package...

it is sufficient to use catkin_create_pkg <WHATEVER>, add the mentioned tag in the package.xml, add the respective dependencies and replace the CMakeLists.txt with the boilerplate one. Note that this needs to be exact that (whitespace!) except for the package name.

mgruhler ( 2019-05-02 04:25:47 -0500 )edit

Might be a nice PR to extend catkin_create_pkg so it can generate metapackages.

gvdhoorn ( 2019-05-02 05:10:00 -0500 )edit

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answered 2019-05-03 08:56:44 -0500

mgruhler

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Actually, @gvdhoorn's recommendation is already implemented. So now posting as answer:

catkin_create_pkg <MY_META_PACKAGE> --meta

will do what you want. You still have to add the dependencies to the package.xml, though. But this is actually trivial...

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Yes, indeed. Not sure how I missed that in the --help of catkin_create_pkg:

optional arguments:
  --meta                Creates meta-package files

gvdhoorn ( 2019-05-03 09:02:31 -0500 )edit

I'm stumped how I missed that as well. This feature is actually four years old and I've been copying around files to achieve this :-D

mgruhler ( 2019-05-03 09:06:49 -0500 )edit

thanks guys

JMM ( 2019-05-07 02:07:14 -0500 )edit

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