# \#ros\_buildfarm

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## [Bringing ROS into your native C/C++ workflow with Conan](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/bringing-ros-into-your-native-c-c-workflow-with-conan/57697)

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**Author:** [@danimtb](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/danimtb)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/bringing-ros-into-your-native-c-c-workflow-with-conan/57697 "2026-09-30T12:47:09Z")

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Hi ROS community! I am Dani, a member of the Conan C/C++ Package Manager team, and we would like to introduce conan-io/ros-conan: a collection of Conan recipes for installing and consuming ROS Kilted on Linux, macOS, an…

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## [Jenkins version upgrade of ci.ros2.org \[Scheduled Buildfarm Downtime\]](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/jenkins-version-upgrade-of-ci-ros2-org-scheduled-buildfarm-downtime/57458)

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**Author:** [@Crola1702](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Crola1702)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 19, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/jenkins-version-upgrade-of-ci-ros2-org-scheduled-buildfarm-downtime/57458 "2026-08-19T13:09:41Z")

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Hello ROS Community, The OSRF Infrastructure Project is planning to update the Jenkins version of https://ci.ros2.org as part of our ongoing efforts to maintain and improve the ROS buildfarm infrastructure. To facilitat…

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## [Missing px4\_msgs from APT](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/missing-px4-msgs-from-apt/57491)

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**Author:** [@mcamurri](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/mcamurri)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 19, 2026, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/missing-px4-msgs-from-apt/57491 "2026-08-19T07:57:50Z")

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The px4\_msgs package takes a lot of time to compile. It would be nice to have it on APT. I’ve seen that it is actually built by the ROS2 buildfarm for Noble: however, it seems not to be available on apt, e.g. by runn…

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## [Pixi as a co-official way of installing ROS on Linux](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/pixi-as-a-co-official-way-of-installing-ros-on-linux/51764)

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**Author:** [@esteve](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/esteve)\
**Replies:** 28\
**Last updated:** [February 17, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/pixi-as-a-co-official-way-of-installing-ros-on-linux/51764 "2026-02-17T19:38:37Z")

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It’s that time of the year when someone with too much spare time on their hands proposes a radical change to the way ROS is distributed and built. This time, it’s my turn. So let me start this with acknowledging that wi…

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## [Become a Build Farm Backer + Infra Team Swag](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/become-a-build-farm-backer-infra-team-swag/51259)

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**Author:** [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 2, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/become-a-build-farm-backer-infra-team-swag/51259 "2025-12-02T18:37:45Z")

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Become a Build Farm Backer + Infra Team Swag Hi Everyone, It is “Giving Tuesday” and we’ve put together a new fundraising campaign for the OSRF. This year we are asking community members to become a “Build Farm Backe…

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## [ROS 2 Jazzy Packages for Ubuntu 22.04](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-jazzy-packages-for-ubuntu-22-04/42509)

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**Author:** [@meetgandhi-dev](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/meetgandhi-dev)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-jazzy-packages-for-ubuntu-22-04/42509 "2025-03-14T14:57:06Z")

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If you’re looking to migrate your robots to ROS 2 Jazzy but are unable to do so because your embedded vendor hasn’t released the Ubuntu 24.04 yet, you can try using these packages natively (Yes! Without using docker cont…

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## [Buildfarm down? (Fixed)](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/buildfarm-down-fixed/28017)

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**Author:** [@Kenji\_Brameld](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Kenji_Brameld)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 1, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/buildfarm-down-fixed/28017 "2022-11-01T01:59:20Z")

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Since about an hour ago, my CIs started failing with the error message: Could not resolve 'packages.ros.org' Reading package lists... W: Failed to fetch http://packages.ros.org/ros2-testing/ubuntu/dists/jammy/InRelease …

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## [Why not exposing \`ROS\_VERSION\` in the ROS 1 & 2 build farms?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/why-not-exposing-ros-version-in-the-ros-1-2-build-farms/25476)

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**Author:** [@jlblancoc](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/jlblancoc)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/why-not-exposing-ros-version-in-the-ros-1-2-build-farms/25476 "2022-05-10T06:43:48Z")

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First, sorry if I posted this to the incorrect category :wink: I wondered why (simple) ROS packages wouldn’t be available as a single git branch for many different ROS distributions, even ROS1 and ROS2 ones. Recently, …

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## [Documentation for build.ros2.org](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/documentation-for-build-ros2-org/20506)

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**Author:** [@anordman](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/anordman)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 31, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/documentation-for-build-ros2-org/20506 "2021-05-31T08:14:33Z")

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Dear ROS 2 build farmers, I really like the infrastructure provided with the ROS 2 build farm, https://build.ros2.org, and do think that it’s a great service to the community. However, as a package maintainer, I often s…

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## [Jenkins Heavy Job Plugin](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/jenkins-heavy-job-plugin/16265)

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**Author:** [@cottsay](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/cottsay)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 9, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/jenkins-heavy-job-plugin/16265 "2020-09-09T21:40:05Z")

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Hello, Buildfarmers - In an effort to reduce our compute costs on build.ros2.org, we’re making some changes to eliminate the reserved workers for jobs which can’t run in parallel with other jobs on the same worker. This…

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## [RPM Packaging Support in ros\_buildfarm](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rpm-packaging-support-in-ros-buildfarm/15672)

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**Author:** [@cottsay](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/cottsay)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 30, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rpm-packaging-support-in-ros-buildfarm/15672 "2020-07-30T08:38:21Z")

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The ROS buildfarm currently supports building deb packages for the Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions. Over the past year or so, I’ve been making steady progress on support for building RPM packages, which is the defa…

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## [New release of the ros\_buildfarm package (version 3.0.0)](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-release-of-the-ros-buildfarm-package-version-3-0-0/9456)

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**Author:** [@dirk-thomas](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/dirk-thomas)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 7, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-release-of-the-ros-buildfarm-package-version-3-0-0/9456 "2019-06-07T20:57:32Z")

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I have just released version 3.0.0 of the ros\_buildfarm package. The most important reason for the major version bump is that it requires the provisioned machines to use a post-JEP 200 version of Jenkins. So this is NOT…
