Add BUILD_PKGS_BLACKLIST?

[gavanderhoorn]

This would be the opposite of BUILD_PKGS_WHITELIST.

Example use-case: motoman_experimental depends on industrial_experimental, for a single package only: industrial_robot_pkg_gen. As industrial_experimental has not been released, I'm using a .travis.rosinstall file. Everything works, but: industrial_experimental also contains IRC_v2 packages, which run a lot of tests.

Testing is good, but motoman_experimental does not use anything from IRCv2, and I'd rather ignore the IRCv2 packages completely in the Travis runs for motoman_experimental.

Instead of having to list each and every pkg I do want tested, it would be nice if we could invert the setting and use a blacklist.

[mathias-luedtke]

I have started to implemented this (and other features) in #137

[gavanderhoorn]

Ok, nice.

Would you want to keep this one open then, and close after implementation / merge of #137, or close right now as a sort-of duplicate?

[mathias-luedtke]

Would you want to keep this one open

Let's keep it open as a reminder

and I'd rather ignore the IRCv2 packages completely in the Travis runs for motoman_experimental.

As a temporary fix you could create a CATKIN_IGNORE file in BEFORE_SCRIPT or run catkin config .. to blacklist it

[gavanderhoorn]

Yeah, I tried to do that, but forgot that the .rosinstall file only gets processed by travis.sh itself. So my line added before travis.sh under script didn't work as I intended.

Does BEFORE_SCRIPT only work with actual scripts, or would a single script line (ie: touch ..) also work?

[mathias-luedtke]

Does BEFORE_SCRIPT only work with actual scripts, or would a single script line (ie: touch ..) also work?

The string gets executed by bash -c, so touch ... works

[130s]

Does BEFORE_SCRIPT only work with actual scripts, or would a single script line (ie: touch ..) also work?

The string gets executed by bash -c, so touch ... works

If I'm not mistaken, target repo is read-only so you can't touch into it (there fore something like #123 is useful)?

[mathias-luedtke]

BUILD_PKGS_WHITELIST was removed in #361 in favor of the new workspace management, which only supports "black-listing" by removing directories