Custom ROS Variant

asked 2012-11-26 14:09:39 -0500

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Can I declare my own variant in rosdistro/releases/groovy.yaml to install only the packages I want?

Why would I want to do this? Not everything historically works/compiles on OSX and I would like to select which packages I install instead of the historical "ROS-Full". I am also doing work with Debian on Raspberry Pi and would like to do something similar.

Example use case:

variants: ros-base: - actionlib - catkin - common_msgs - gencpp - genlisp … kevin-varient - actionlib - catkin - vision_opencv - tf ….

If "yes," then how can I do this? Is it something like:

fork rosdistro
make changes to rosdistro/releases/groovy.yaml similar to above
edit /etc/ros/rosdep/sources.list.d/20-default.list to point to my fork on github
rosinstall --catkin ~/ros "http://github.com/whatever/groovy.yaml"

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For non catkin based things variants can only be setup in the ROSDISTRO.rosdistro file, aka groovy.rosdistro file. If you submit a custom variant as a ticket on the ros trac we can add it. Looking forward as @joq mentions a variant will simply be a released metapackage with the common toolchain.

tfoote ( 2012-12-03 22:28:28 -0500 )edit

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