[Fedora Robotics] ROS Fuerte

[Rich Mattes]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> Just as an FYI, I'm in the process of attempting to package up the ROS
> Fuerte stack in a way that I hope could be acceptable for inclusion in
> Fedora, and making some reasonable progress.
>
> I'll probably end up needing a lot of reviews if/when I am successful.
> At the moment, I'm running into an issue where the ROS component
> "perception_pcl" depends on a forked version of PCL that ROS only makes
> available in a binary Ubuntu dpkg. I have opened a bug with ROS asking
> for the corresponding source code, but so far, they haven't responded.
> (If anyone knows where I can find that magic ROS PCL source code fork,
> please let me know.)
>
> ~tom
>
>
Hi Tom,

That's great to hear!  Before you get too far, I've already started
by packaging some of the helper utilities[1].  I think they're about ready
to post for review, which I can do tonight if you don't see any issues.  If
you would like to coordinate efforts, we also have a wiki page[2] started
to track progress, we can convert it into a table with package names,
versions, packaging status, and review status, then we can branch out and
get all the specfiles written.

It looks like the version of PCL that fuerte is including is marked as
1.5.2[2].  Given the date in the package name, it looks like they probably
took an svn snapshot[3] on that date and bumped the version from the latest
release(1.5.1).  I agree it would be nice if they posted source packages
with the binary packages in their ubuntu repositories.

Are you having trouble getting things to build with the PCL packages we
have in Fedora right now?

Rich

[1] http://rmattes.fedorapeople.org/rospackages/
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics/ROS_Packaging
[3] http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/pool/main/r/ros-fuerte-pcl/
[4] http://dev.pointclouds.org/projects/pcl/repository
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