Custom rosdeps?

[reinzor]

Is there a way to specify custom rosdep sources? I cannot find it in the documentation or the issues. Thanks

[130s]

Probably not possible as of now. Only customization possible for rosdep so far is ROSDEP_SKIP_KEYS.

I've never tried though, rosdep seems to allow passing custom rosdep source.

$ rosdep --help                                                                                                                                                                      
:
-c SOURCES_CACHE_DIR, --sources-cache-dir=SOURCES_CACHE_DIR
                        Override /home/useraccount/.ros/rosdep/sources.cache

$ apt-cache policy python-rosdep
python-rosdep:
  Installed: 0.15.0-1

If you can open a pull request that'll be great.

[miguelprada]

We've been exploring different ways to add rosdep sources and have experimented with:

• adding them "manually" with a script executed in BEFORE_SCRIPT
• adding them to a docker image, which is selected with DOCKER_IMAGE

In both cases, we also set-up custom apt sources, and so far both approaches have worked fine.

I think we faced some issues when trying to pass the custom image as DOCKER_BASE_IMAGE, but it wasn't me setting this up and I can't remember exactly what went wrong.

[VictorLamoine]

When I release closed source software to clients I do my releases locally, this requires rosdep keys to be added so I have created scripts to help me do the job: https://gitlab.com/VictorLamoine/bloom_local_release

The append_rosdep_key, clear_rosdep_keys will help you do the job. There are some comments in the script so you should be able to understand how it works.

This could be a good starting point for you, I hope it helps!