Ansible ROS Install Role

This is a role to help guide the installation of ROS (Robot Operating System)

Dependencies

None

Variables

Look in defaults/main.yml for role variables

Variable Configurations

There are some pre-made configuration files for various Ubuntu and Debian distributions in the vars folder

Example Playbook

- vars_files:
    - vars/ubuntu-16.04.yml
  vars:
    - ros__package: ros-base
  roles:
    - hxr.ros-install

TODO

The following is a rough todo list for this repo

• ROS Distro detection
  • Notify if not supported
  • Automatically select ROS version if supported
  • test 404 error? : http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/dists/
• Tests
  • Coverage
  • Repo key verification
• Evaluate buildling from source
  • building ros desktop + packages from source
  • building with Python3
• Documentation
  • yaml2rst

License

Dual BSD / MIT

Resources

This Ansible Role tries to follow DEP2 - DebOps code standards