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Add installation hint for released packages #121
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What's the official pattern for converting a ros package name / distro into a debian package name? Is it just the following? "ros-%s-%s" % (distro, pkg_name.replace('_', '-')) |
Yes. |
This is from bloom/rosdebian.py:
The names in those mockups are actually from the |
We should definitely consider needing to extend this to the RPM case. We are very close thanks to @cottsay I like the last mockup the best. We should make sure to link to the installation instructions: http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu in that to know that they will have to add apt-sources etc. We may need to consider adding some info to the manifest to specifcally call out which packages are availailable since we don't want to tell people to install via apt if it's not built. |
Related to this we could also consider giving the matrix of versions available in shadow-fixed and public. aka the info here: http://www.ros.org/debbuild/indigo.html?q=roscpp_tutorials |
All info shown (apart from the rpm line) can be extracted from the |
First attempt pushed to gavanderhoorn:issue121_installation_hint. Not done yet, but I'd like to get some initial feedback on approach taken if possible. Haven't yet tested this on a local instance of the wiki. Is there any documentation on how to set up a development instance of the wiki? Also: I think headings other than |
@gavanderhoorn I recently used https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki_vagrant and it worked to setup an instance of the roswiki using Vagrant. |
From clarifying package installation 'best practices'? on
ros-users
.I suggest we add automatically generated installation hints to wiki pages of released packages, in order to reduce the number of users that install everything from source (perhaps inspired by the Source link under the Package Summary heading).
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