Why install rolling sources for rosdep when using humble for ros_gz?
Environment
- OS Version: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Source, humble commit 74dcf50afc0c487e0d6ef5da8c412ddb14762b30
- Gazebo version - garden, installed with binaries as recommended
Description
- When installing rosdep sources, I would expect to install sources for the distro I am using.
Steps to reproduce
- Clone ros_gz
- Checkout the humble branch
- Run the supplied rosdep command
rosdep install -y -r -q --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro rolling
Output
Rosdep specifies the following behavior for rosdistro.
--rosdistro=ROS_DISTRO
Explicitly sets the ROS distro to use, overriding the
normal method of detecting the ROS distro using the
ROS_DISTRO environment variable. When used with the
'update' verb, only the specified distro will be
updated.
Is this intentional to install rolling sources even when using humble? If not, my recommendation would be this:
- Clone ros_gz
- Checkout your branch of choicde
- NEW - Source your ROS installation, whichever you choose.
source /opt/ros/<ros_distro>/setup.bash - Then, run rosdep without the
rosdistroflag. Since the ROS WS was sourced before calling rosdep, it will use the appropriate distro for you automatically.
Even with the following, and after installing gazebo garden, I get the following errors on install.
rosdep install -y -r -q --from-paths src --ignore-src
ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
ros_gz_image: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [gz-transport12]
ros_gz_bridge: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [gz-transport12]
ros_gz_sim_demos: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [gz-sim7]
ros_gz_sim: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [gz-math7]
Continuing to install resolvable dependencies...
All required rosdeps installed successfully
