Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition

Releasing our package

The following command starts the release. The syntax of this command is as follows:

bloom-release --rosdistro <ros_distro> --track <ros_distro> repository_name
$ bloom-release --rosdistro kinetic --track kinetic mastering_ros_demo_pkg  

When this command is executed, it will go to the rosdistro (https://github.com/ros/rosdistro) package repository to get the package details. The rosdistro package in ROS contains an index file, which contains a list of all the packages in ROS. Currently, there is no index for our package because this is our first release, but we can add our package details to this index file called distributions.yaml.

The following message will be displayed when there is no reference of the package in ...