robot_upstart

Clearpath Robotics presents a suite of scripts to assist with launching background ROS processes on Ubuntu Linux PCs. Please see the generated documentation and ROS Wiki.

Changelog for package robot_upstart

0.3.1 (2021-03-01)

• [doc] Add commands when systemd is chosen. (#78) When [systemd]{.title-ref} is specified as a provider, commands are different. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers [doc] Add systemd start/stop commands.
• Melodic compatibility: modify getifip for bionic output (#88)
  • Add net-tools as dependency because ifconfig is used
  • Modify getifip to handle bionic ifconfig output
• Break line that the linter doesn't like. (#87)
• [doc] Clarify the logic for automated job name determination. (#82) Problem addressed ================= When [--job]{.title-ref} option is not passed to [rosrun robot_upstart install]{.title-ref}, the job name gets determined automatically but the logic of it is not clear. Solution to the problem ======================= Add an explanation to the document.
• [CI][kinetic-devel] Update to Xenial. (#79) * [CI][kinetic-devel] Update to Xenial. On a PR https://github.com/clearpathrobotics/robot_upstart/pull/78 I saw [CI failure](https://travis-ci.org/clearpathrobotics/robot_upstart/builds/507510733?utm_source=github_status&utm_medium=notification) that seems to be related to platform issue. Using [trusty]{.title-ref} for xenial-based job might not work (any more?). ` Unpacking python-rospkg (1.1.7-100) ... dpkg-deb: error: archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdep_0.15.1-1_all.deb' has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdep_0.15.1-1_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.26+nmu4ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python-catkin-pkg-modules_0.4.10-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python-catkin-pkg_0.4.10-100_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro-modules_0.7.2-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro_0.7.2-100_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdep_0.15.1-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The command "sudo apt-get install python-rosdep -y" failed and exited with 100 during .`
  • [CI] Switch to industrial_ci. Add ROS2 dashing.
  • [CI] Remove ROS2 dashing for now (see https://github.com/clearpathrobotics/robot_upstart/pull/79#issuecomment-533908848).
• Add support for wait flag in the install script (#73)
• Contributors: Isaac I.Y. Saito, Mateusz Sadowski, Mike Purvis, Ramon Wijnands

0.3.0 (2018-05-23)

• Add a dependency onto network-online.target (#67)
• Clarify the reason of the error due to wrong pkgpath passed. (#57)
• Allow ROS_HOME to be set previously by env file. (#54)
• Contributors: Isaac I.Y. Saito, Thomas Furfaro, mhosmar-cpr

0.2.2 (2017-01-23)

• Added a spin wait until ros processes exit. (#40)
• Moved detect_providers to providers.py (#46)
• Miscellaneous source code fixups.
• Contributors: Mike Purvis, Tony Baltovski, Zac Witte

0.2.1 (2016-12-19)

• Added option to install under systemd rather than upstart (#41)
• Added option to add launch files as symbolic link (#43)
• Fix title underline to silence doc job warning.
• Update README.md Use [latest_available]{.title-ref} URL for documentation link.
• Merge pull request #31 from clearpathrobotics/roslint_fix Remove unwanted whitespace
• Remove unwanted whitespace
• Merge pull request #28 from clearpathrobotics/install_multiple_files Updated install script to allow adding multiple launch files to a job
• Ensure script aborts if one of the provided launch files cannot be found
• Updated install script to allow adding multiple launch files to a job at once
• Fix leftover {user} tokens in template.
• Formatting changes for new pep8.
• Contributors: Jonathan Jekir, Kazumi Malhan, Mike Purvis, Niklas Casaril

0.2.0 (2015-03-14)

• Linter fixes.
• Contributors: Mike Purvis

0.1.2 (2015-03-13)

• Add some basic install/uninstall tests.
• Add uninstall job method and script.
• Remove out of date README content, now forwards to ROS Wiki and generated documentation.
• Add a documentation section about permissions
• Contributors: Gaël Ecorchard, Mike Purvis

0.1.1 (2015-01-20)

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