packagegroup-petalinux-ros doesn't actually include ros2-control

[msandstedt]

meta-petalinux/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-petalinux-ros.bb

Line 151 in 5799be3

${ROS_DEMO_PACKAGES} \

See above. This is duplicatively pulling in demos, not ros2-control. Nominally, this would be the fix:

diff --git a/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-petalinux-ros.bb b/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-petalinux-ros.bb
index c97813d..b6b15bf 100644
--- a/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-petalinux-ros.bb
+++ b/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-petalinux-ros.bb
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-demo:aarch64 = "\
 "
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-control:aarch64 = "\
-    ${ROS_DEMO_PACKAGES} \
+    ${ROS_CONTROL_PACKAGES} \
 "
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev:aarch64 = "\

However, if one is to actually attempt to build the ROS_CONTROL_PACKAGES recipes, the build will fail. Those recipes are these:

SUMMARY:${PN}-control = "ROS_CONTROL_PACKAGES includes ROS control packages"
ROS_CONTROL_PACKAGES = "\
    controller-interface \
    controller-manager \
    controller-manager-msgs \
    hardware-interface \
    ros2-control \
    ros2controlcli \
    ros2-control-test-assets \
    transmission-interface \
"

When I check what content is included for meta-ros from petalinux 2022.2, it is very close to this: https://github.com/ros/meta-ros/tree/honister

So I think the problem is two-fold:

• packagegroup-petalinux-ros purports to pull in ros2-control, but doesn't actually do so; hence there is no CI coverage or visibility into those recipes failing
• AND those recipes do fail to build, as they seem to be broken in meta-ros:honister.

[grsandeep85]

Hi @msandstedt ,

We have fixed this issue back in April 2023 but looks like patch is not published to 2022.2 and 2023.1 release we will push the patch in a day or two.