This repo is holding the .rosinstall file used with OSL team repositories. The rosinstall system is used to automatically download and synchronize a bunch of remote repos with ROS software using a simple facility called rosws (for more info please see below).
Before starting please be sure to use the right .rosinstall file according to your current ROS version. If a new version is released please create a new <ros_version_name>.rosinstall file by copying and updating the last working one.
Please make sure to start from a ROS clean environment if this is your first experience with this tool. To get your local environment up-to-date with the development code you need to follow some steps. Assuming you are working with ROS Indigo just type:
cd src
git clone git@github.com:oceansystemslab/rosinstall.git
cd rosinstall
cp indigo.rosinstall ../.rosinstall
cd ..
rosws update
This will parse the chosen <version>.rosinstall file and it will download all the required code from the remote repositories.
If then code you are downloading is for a rosbuild workspace to be used in a overlay mode (the default option during transition period) now you need to recreate the startup scripts:
cd src
rosws regenerate
source setup.bash
This will activate the rosbuild workspace you just downloaded.
If then code you are downloading is for a catkin workspace now you can go to the top-level folder and start the make procedure:
cd ..
catkin_make
By OSL convention any .rosinstall is composed of three main sections, the setup, the main and the local. The first two are required while the latter is used to customize your installation with your local packages before they have been released.
Here is an example of a .rosinstall file (a plain YAML file):
# indigo.rosinstall
- setup-file: {local-name: /opt/ros/jade/setup.sh}
# main repos
- git: {local-name: rosinstall, uri: 'git@github.com:oceansystemslab/rosinstall.git', version: master}
# ...
# local pacakges can be added here using the keywork 'other'
# - other: {local-name: <package_dir>}
The setup is telling the rosinstall system which ROS workspace to overlay on. Think the overlay system as a russian matryoshka doll where the new workspace will wrap an existing one. In the default case the ROS standard workspace is used. In the case you want to customize the use of these .rosinstall file, for instance if you have multiple workspaces, you can edit (but not push back to the repo) your local .rosinstall file, changing the setup section by pointing at a different existing workspace.
In order to work with the downloaded code, after following the steps above one of the build systems, make sure to source from your local ~/.bashrc the setup.bash file of your new workspace.
For instance if working with rosbuild just add to your ~/.bashrc:
source ~/src/setup.bash
Please be sure to give a quick read about the use of rosws tool and the rosinstall framework: