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rosinstall_generator desktop_full getting packages I don't have installed

I installed ros the normal way with sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full. Now, I want to get a snapshot of the package versions using rosinstallgenerator desktopfull.

However, for some reason, it's getting a lot of packages that I don't have installed. Why is that? How do I exclude them?

Asked by mugetsu on 2019-11-19 14:50:34 UTC

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How are you invoking rosinstall_generator?

Please show exact commands you've used.

And an observation: if you've used apt, it may perhaps be better to use any of the available apt snapshotting / mirroring tools instead, as that would get you the actual packages that you used to install ROS on your system.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2019-11-20 03:02:55 UTC

here is how I did it:

rosinstall_generator desktop_full --rosdistro kinetic --deps --tar --flat > build/ws.rosinstall

rosinstall comes up with a bunch of packages that I do not have installed.

Asked by mugetsu on 2019-11-20 15:01:16 UTC

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