[Request] `ros-melodic-desktop-full` Robot Operating System (ROS) about arch4edu HOT 20 CLOSED

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No, sadly I haven't had time for doing this, as one paper came in between and I was focusing on it. Now I'm currently in holidays, so expect at least another week. Currently my Repo should have most of the packages.

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@bionade24 Sorry to ping u about this issue again, but has there been any progress? I know you have your own repo for the ROS packages, but I would like to see it in the official repos (ideally) or in a repo that more people use such as this one.

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Sorry, I haven't had time for doing this.

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@acxz I did not realise that. This makes sense. Thanks!

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@thecountoftuscany Even though I have not much time, I'll still care about melodic until I'll drop ROS completely, which will be ~ 1 year in the future.

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Thank you for working on this, makes me really happy!
I will go ahead and add the wiki link for adding this repository to the ROS installation page (https://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation/ArchLinux) so that users know about this repository and can leverage it when installing ROS.

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See the updated ROS Melodic installation page (https://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation/ArchLinux#preview), I have added your repository to the instructions before installing ROS.

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I hope this repository gets more exposure by adding ROS and linking it from the official install page.

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Packages like ros-melodic-roscpp shouldn't have arch=('any').

any here means once built, the output package suits for any architecture.
But packages like the cpp stuffs are not, they only suit the architecture that the build machine uses.

You have to list all architectures like arch=('x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64').

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Ah I was not aware of this, I'll go ahead and bring this issue up with the Arch ros maintainers and let you know when it is fixed. Thank you.

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Any update?

If not I will manually set arch=('x86_64') for all ros-melodic-* packages.
And all the packages will then be built for x86_64 only. Is that fine?

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Ah no. Sorry about that. The maintainer has mentioned he will go through the packages and add the architectures via a script but he has not done that yet.

I think getting something out is better than nothing, so if you could do that that would be much much appreciated!

EDIT: If the ROS maintainers later add the specified architectures will the packages for the other architectures be built automatically? Or will you have to do some extra work? If they get built automatically, I will feel less bad of giving you the go ahead for this right now.

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Here is the continued conversation: ros-melodic-arch/ros-melodic-roscpp#2
Also tagging @bionade24

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Done now, sorry for letting this hanging so long. ros-melodic-arch/ros-melodic-roscpp#2 But please wait a week as explained in the other issue, because I'll try to get the "standard" packages into community repo.

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@bionade24 it has been a week, what is the status? Can @petronny continue taking up this request?

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@bionade24 Is there some way for us to follow the conversation you are having with the TU's about getting these pacakges in the main repos?

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Now that ros-noetic is around the corner and we have started packaging for it, I would like to rescind the request for ros-melodic-* packages. Note some deps will still be common such as gazebo, pcl, ogre, etc. But the ros-melodic-* packages will be changed to ros-noetic-*.

If someone else would like ros-melodic-* packages to be packaged by arch4edu please comment on this thread to reopen the issue.

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ROS Melodic is still the long term support version of ROS that is widely being used by people in the academia. I personally would like for ros-melodic-* packages to be made available with arch4edu because I use it (and plan to use it till the next LTS release), but I also understand that this is a volunteer effort and it may not be possible. Thanks in any case!

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@thecountoftuscany when you say “plan to use it till the next LTS release” ROS-noetic, the next LTS release, will be released on May 23rd which is coming up very soon.

Since the next release is coming up so soon, I decided to close this issue and will create a new one request for noetic once the ROS-noetic packages are out on the AUR. The ros-arch team is already backporting a lot of patches for the upstream release versions and that maintenance burden will just increase if we still support ros-melodic packages. We will still maintain ros-melodic packages since the stack works but for the ease of maintenance and the sake of time we will focus on the latest LTS release, not ros-melodic. The ros-melodic packages will still be there.

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