rosdistro is missing source info

[NikolausDemmel]

It seems that https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/hydro/distribution.yaml is missing the source entry for kobuki_desktop and also others, like kobuki_core or kobuki_soft. I did not check the other ROS distros.

[jihoonl]

Just curious, what is source entry for? Does it do any specific job in the release process?

[NikolausDemmel]

Not sure about other uses, but for me it is useful in conjunction with rosinstall_generator. E.g.

$ rosinstall_generator --rosdistro hydro --repos kobuki --upstream
- git:
    local-name: kobuki
    uri: https://github.com/yujinrobot/kobuki.git
    version: 0.5.6

but rosinstall_generator --rosdistro hydro --repos kobuki_desktop --upstream errors out because of the missing entires in rosdistro.

[stonier]

That's one. Another is that it makes available the option to do pre-releases with the latest source instead of the latest release tarball.

[jihoonl]

Fixed.

[NikolausDemmel]

Thanks!