roslocate info turtlebot | rosws merge -

Question

Well ... in guide : http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Overlays I try to do this command:

roslocate info turtlebot | rosws merge -

But I receive this error:

File "/usr/bin/rosws", line 64, in <module>
  sys.exit(rosinstall.rosws_cli.rosws_main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rosinstall/rosws_cli.py", line 551, in rosws_main    
 return ws_commands[command](workspace, args)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rosinstall/rosws_cli.py", line 259, in cmd_merge
  config=config)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rosinstall/multiproject_cli.py", line 612, in prompt_merge
extra_verbose))
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rosinstall/multiproject_cli.py", line 512, in _get_element_diff
  diff = string_diff(old_val, new_val)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rosinstall/common.py", line 139, in string_diff
  str1 = str1.ljust(len(str2))
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'ljust'

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Originally posted by leo_eng on ROS Answers with karma: 3 on 2012-08-18

Post score: 4

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Original comments

Comment by leo_eng on 2012-08-18:
I receive : - hg: local-name: turtlebot meta: repo-name: turtlebot-ros-pkg uri: https://kforge.ros.org/turtlebot/turtlebot version: default What is the result in this case? And I have to put the result in "fuerte_workspace"?

Comment by leo_eng on 2012-08-18:
I receive

Answer 1

That's a bug, thanks for reporting it. I filed it here: https://kforge.ros.org/vcstools/trac/ticket/65 will investigate

In the meantime, you can just call:

roslocate info turtlebot

and add the result to the .rosinstall file in your workspace

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Originally posted by KruseT with karma: 7848 on 2012-08-18

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 3