Using SCLs for ROS releases vs simply dumping them into /opt/ros/$ros-release

Marcela Mašláňová mmaslano at redhat.com
Sat Feb 8 05:56:39 UTC 2014


On 02/07/2014 01:54 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bloom, the ROS generator system has recently gotten support to generate
> rpms[1]. At the moment, the author is simply putting releases
> into /opt/ros/$ros-release and isn't making use of SCLs. Is this OK, or
> should they use SCLs?
>
> As you'll see from the ticket, I've already pointed him to SCLs, but
> considering that he's already using /opt/ros/$ros-release, and not the
> system directories, I'm wondering how using SCLs would be any different?
>
> [1] https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/bloom/pull/228
>
> PS: I've also sent this to the fedora-packaging-SIG mailing list. I
> wasn't too sure what the best list for this question is.
>
>
>
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No problem in using regular packaging for /opt. Many people already do so.
SCLs are better if you have two packages of different version on one 
system, because installation in different directory don't solve rpm 
conflicts.

Marcela


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