A proposal for a Superflore OE Recipe Generation Scheme

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Hello Everybody,

We at LG are working on extending the work initiated by @allenh1 on superflore in order to automatically generate buildable Bitbake recipes of ROS2 index packages, focusing on the latest ROS 2 and OpenEmbedded/Yocto releases.

We’ve come up with a proposal and reference implementation and would like to invite the community to review, contribute to it and provide feedback.

We are trying it now and converting the ROS 2 recipes used by BeanBirdBot to the automatically generated ones in order to validate the functionality and the workflow.

We’ll be more than happy to have a call and discuss everything.

https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/superflore/issues/167

https://github.com/andre-rosa/rosdep/commit/21d2b87f183fdcbacfcb02b38ca33a4fd662661e
https://github.com/andre-rosa/rospkg/commit/26a0dc45d6c98d1edcf7371a63886fb8e9470f81
https://github.com/andre-rosa/rosdistro/commit/1b26523b31824ab7ee85f7d2d02a7855c5cc5506
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdistro/pull/134/commits/3d1643057013f32969117992ac33cd54d1697d44

@herb-kuta-lge @bshin-lge @vmayoral @braineniac @LanderU @abilbaotm

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ping @LanderU and @abilbaotm

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Hello Everybody,

We’re happy to submit our initial pull requests for extending the superflore OpenEmbedded support.

We’ve successfully converted the ROS 2 recipes used by BeanBirdBot, built and executed it well.

While we continue progressing towards the core and full ROS 2 Crystal build, we’d like to invite you for reviewing the pull requests below:
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rospkg/pull/166
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdep/pull/673
https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/20763
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/superflore/pull/168

Tagging @herb-kuta-lge @allenh1 @dirk-thomas @tfoote @vmayoral @braineniac @LanderU @abilbaotm

Thank you Everybody!

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Brief status update:

  1. Done We successfully migrated BeanBirdBot from manually crafted ROS 2 recipes based on Bouncy to automatically generated recipes by superflore and tested it on Rpi3 hardware;
  2. Done We successfully built a basic roscore ROS 2 Crystal image with Yocto 2.6 Thud release and ros2cli works well when doing basic testing under qemu;
  3. In progress We’re working on getting a full build of ros-world ROS 2 Crystal + Yocto Thud;
  4. To be done We can now see dashing published to the index. As soon as its distribution/cache gets populated more we’ll also proceed to build it.
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Brief status update:

  1. Done We successfully migrated BeanBirdBot from manually crafted ROS 2 recipes based on Bouncy to automatically generated recipes by SuperFlore and tested it on Rpi3 hardware;
    ○ Updated: generated recipes for Crystal ROS 2 release + Thud. Working on BeanBirdBot;
  2. Done We successfully built a basic roscore ROS 2 Crystal image with Yocto 2.6 Thud release and ros2cli works well when doing basic testing under qemu;
  3. Done Built (OpenEmbedded build instructions) an extended set (~275 packages) from ROS 2 Crystal index on Yocto 2.6 Thud release;
  4. In progress We’re working on getting a full (missing ~75) build of ROS 2 Crystal index + Yocto Thud and finalizing some nuances of the recipe generation scheme;
  5. To be done As soon as dashing distribution/cache gets populated more we’ll also proceed to build it.
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OpenEmbedded is now a Tier 3 supported platform (as of ROS 2 Dashing announcement) and the development will proceed further on a new meta-ros under ROS organization (pre-announcement).

Many thanks to everybody who contributed to reaching this milestone. Cheers!

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@andre.goddard Wondering if there’s any progress here for Eloquent?

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Our current plan is to introduce support for eloquent after the migration of meta-ros to layer version 3 and the addition of support for the OE-Core warrior release – see Milestones 8 → 10 here. Now that we’re back from ROSCon and IROS, we’ll able to make more rapid progress on this and intend to have Eloquent support available when it’s released.

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