Re: [Fedora Robotics] ROS Fuerte base packages all posted

[Ankur Sinha]

On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 16:48 -0400, Rich Mattes wrote:
> I think we might be better off trying to extend the upstream "bloom" 
> tool[1].  It's already got the logic to parse the xml files and pull
> out 
> the build requirements, and they're using it upstream to spit out the 
> control files for their deb files.  It's pluggable, and it probably 
> wouldn't be that hard to add a spec file generator along side their 
> debian generator (which is located in the source at bloom/generators)

I looked into bloom briefly. It seems to be tightly integrated with
github, specially their repositories. It generates entire packages,
doesn't it? Can we deploy it locally and use it to generate rpms? I'm
not quite sure..