[Rock-dev] [Rock-users] Autoproj - Not officially supported OS packages

[Sylvain Joyeux]

No, because that should *not* be done by any automated tool. Adding
PPAs is a security risk. If some of the PPAs I've used is
representative, it is also a nice way to break your user's systems.

Some options:
 - make autoproj compile opencv from source to get the parts you need
 - provide a separate package set in which you warn you users clearly
of what you want to do to their ubuntus and install the PPA (i.e. by
asking a question)
 - check in the autobuild files whether the parts of opencv you need
are installed (i.e. by checking for some include / pkg-config file)
and if it is not, fallback to the build-opencv-from-source. Add
information in README that one can install the package manually to
avoid building from source.

Sylvain

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Javier Hidalgo Carrió
<javier.hidalgo_carrio at dfki.de> wrote:
> Hi Rock,
>
> I have a question regarding the installation of not officially supported os
> packages in Ubuntu. When a rock task needs an os package which is not part
> of the official list of packages. For example: a computer vision task which
> requires opencv-nonfree extension. Before compiling the task I will need to
> do:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:xqms/opencv-nonfree
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install libopencv-nonfree-dev
>
> Is there a manner to do it using autoproj?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Javier.
>
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