launch file find with current pkg name

Question

Hi

Is there a way to resolve the current pkg folder name related to a launch file? My launch files uses the

$(find current_pkg)/my_file.xy

substitution to find and resolve a file in my current package. Every time I am renaming my pkg or if have to check all the finds. Is there a more common way such as

$(CURRENT_PKG)/my_file.xy

Greetings Markus

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Originally posted by Markus Bader on ROS Answers with karma: 847 on 2016-08-19

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Comment by Markus Bader on 2020-11-10:
Is there anything new on this?

Answer 1

If you can set a system-wide environment variable for CURRENT_PKG (might need to put it in ~/.bashrc file), you can swap the $(find current_pkg) part with $(env CURRENT_PKG).

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Originally posted by ElizabethA with karma: 120 on 2016-08-19

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by Markus Bader on 2016-11-13:
nice idea, but i have multiple such packages.

Comment by Markus Bader on 2020-11-10:
Is there anything new on this?

Comment by gvdhoorn on 2020-11-10:
@Markus Bader: posting comments on an answered question from 2016 is not the most visible way to ask for updates.

I happened to notice as I'm watching this question, but without that, your comment would be almost invisible.