rosdep ignores --skip-keys

[jmtatsch]

on Mac OS X 10.10.2 with ROS Indigo e.g. rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y --skip-keys "ogre gazebo" executing command [brew install ogre]

[wjwwood]

Annoyingly, it is one key at a time, do this:

rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y --skip-keys ogre --skip-keys gazebo

[dirk-thomas]

The help text suggests that a single space separated string would be fine as well: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdep/blob/1b1efed99a14f3f17ea9dcff44c9d65c0b81d675/src/rosdep2/main.py#L289-L298

[wjwwood]

I think it was added by @NikolausDemmel in https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdep/commit/e6afc9f53adfc72cc83d8e438a1ae972e2f7e789, but I'm pretty sure that was not the intended behavior. I don't have time to fix this right now, but I would take a pull request.

[dirk-thomas]

@jmtatsch I tried a similar command line and it seems to work just fine. Can you please check which version of rosdep you are using (rosdep --version)?

[jmtatsch]

0.11.1

[dirk-thomas]

Can you please provide the full output of the command as well as running the same command without the --skip-keys but --simulate instead.

[jmtatsch]

rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y --simulate          
#[homebrew] Installation commands:
  brew install pyside
  brew install gtk+
  brew install gtest
  brew install vtk --with-qt
  brew install log4cxx
  brew install collada-dom
  brew install gazebo
  brew install pcl --HEAD
  brew install pyqwt
  brew install boost-python

rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y --skip-keys ogre --skip-keys gazebo --simulate
#[homebrew] Installation commands:
  brew install pyside
  brew install vtk --with-qt
  brew install collada-dom
  brew install boost-python
  brew install ogre
  brew install pyqwt
  brew install log4cxx
  brew install gtk+
  brew install pcl --HEAD
  brew install gtest

[wjwwood]

The rosdep key is libogre-dev: https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/osx-homebrew.yaml#L210

You would need to do rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro indigo -y --skip-keys libogre-dev --skip-keys gazebo --simulate.

I still think that I've run into the situation where multiple keys cannot be passed to --skip-keys, but I think I would want to verify that before trying to fix it.

[jmtatsch]

With libogre-dev it works. Thank you.