Merge pull request #63 from bulwahn/master

some minor improvements towards running roscore

classes/catkin.bbclass

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ FILES_${PN} += "\
 
 FILES_${PN}-dev += "\
     ${datadir}/${ROS_BPN}/cmake \
-    ${datadir}/${ROS_BPN}/package.xml \
     ${datadir}/${ROS_BPN}/*.template \
     "
 

recipes-core/images/core-image-ros-groovy-running-roscore.bb → recipes-core/images/core-image-ros-groovy-qemux86-running-roscore.bb

@@ -10,8 +10,16 @@ inherit core-image
 
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
 
+# add own name to hosts
+# this is a simplistic setup for the qemu virtual machine with x86 architecture,
+# and not a general solution.
+augment_hosts_setting_file () {
+	echo '127.0.0.1\tqemux86.localdomain\t\tqemux86' >> ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/hosts
+}
+
 # remove not needed ipkg informations
-ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ; "
+# create a custom hosts file
+ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ; augment_hosts_setting_file ; "
 
 IMAGE_INSTALL += "packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh \
   roslaunch \

recipes-ros/ros-comm/roslaunch_1.9.41.bb

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=16;endline=16;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+  coreutils \
   python-textutils \
   python-logging \
   python-threading \
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
   rosgraph-msgs \
     genpy \
     std-msgs \
+  rosout \
 "
 
 require ros-comm.inc