RoboStack / vinca

vinca: a generator for conda recipes for ROS

vinca

Conda recipe generator for ROS packages

WARNING: This project is at a super early stage. No guarantees everything works.

Concept

The tool generates conda recipe to capture all the selected ROS packages. Later, one can use conda-smithy to auto-generate pipeline to release conda binary packages.

Example

First you have to create a vinca.yaml to describe ROS information for vinca to do the magic generating the recipe.

# vinca.yaml
ros_distro: eloquent

# optionally, a fat archive can be generated too.
fat_archive: true
name: ros-eloquent-fat-ament-cmake

# mapping of rosdep keys
# it can be also used to shadow the unwanted packages.
conda_index:
  - 'https://github.com/RoboStack/ros-galactic/blob/master/vinca_linux_64.yaml'

# packages to skip
packages_skip_by_deps:

# packages to include
packages_select_by_deps:
  - ament_cmake

# patch directory
patch_dir: ./patch

Special modes

Build all

To generate recipes for all available ROS packages you can add build_all: true to your vinca.yaml. In that case, otherwise selected packages will be ignored and vinca will generate recipes for all available packages. To try to see how far one can go, it's recommended to run vinca and boa like this:

vinca --multiple  # to generate a `./recipes` folder with multiple subfolders
boa build --skip-existing=fast --continue-on-failure -m conda_build_config.yaml ./recipes