Unable to find dependencies for libconsole-bridge-dev

[kkspeed]

Hi,
I'm trying to use tf with my current project. I added to the manifest.xml, then I run roshask dep. I receive the following message:

Looking for ["libconsole-bridge-dev"], dependencies of /home/bruce/catkin_ws/src/lab1
roshask: Couldn't find path to package (2) libconsole-bridge-dev

It seems that roshask cannot find the package "libconsole-bridge-dev", but this package clearly is installed.

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or is there any workaround to this?

[rgleichman]

It seems that "libconsole-bridge-dev" is not a ROS Package. Thus it would not be on the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, so roshask would not be able to find it. Try adding "libconsole-bridge-dev" to the list of ignoredPackages in roshask/src/Ros/Internal/DepFinder.hs:

ignoredPackages = ["genmsg_cpp", "rospack", "rosconsole", "rosbagmigration", 
                   "roscpp", "rospy", "roslisp", "roslib", "boost", "libconsole-bridge-dev"]

[acowley]

Hrmph, is it worth trying to find a good way of differentiating these kinds of dependencies? This mechanism works, but doesn't scale very well. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to cause too much trouble, so maybe a hand-maintained list like this is most expedient. We could add some kind of whitelist that could be pulled out of a file (eg, roshask.ignore) so folks don't have to edit the code.