Package/stack collisions in ROS Wiki index

asked 2011-03-15 00:44:51 -0500

mjcarroll

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updated 2011-03-15 04:01:01 -0500

kwc
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I opted to use avr_bridge on one of the projects that I am working on, and choose to use it as a git submodule.

This essentially creates a second (sub) git repository nested inside of the first (main) repository.

A nasty side effect of this is that the wiki now believes that avr_bridge is part of my project. If you visit the wiki page for avr_bridge, you will notice that it seems to be part of the au_automow_drivers stack, which is obviously incorrect.

First, is there any way to fix this? And second, what can I do to prevent this from happening again?

answered 2011-03-15 04:03:08 -0500

kwc
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The indexer has to do "first one wins" as it's not possible to determine which is the authoritative source of a package. One of the reasons we encourage external stack releases now is to more cleanly separate contributed software from development trees.

To deal with this, I have moved automow down in the index.

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As convenient as submodule is, like svn externals it only works with the same VCS. We recommend using rosinstall and setting up a standard rosinstall file to use for your project. This will allow you to pull in any repo conveniently, without affecting others who want to checkout your versioned code.