Stuff get's installed in /usr/etc: $ ls -R /usr/etc /usr/etc: catkin ros /usr/etc/catkin: profile.d /usr/etc/catkin/profile.d: 10.ros.sh 10.rosbuild.sh 10.roslaunch.sh 15.rosbash.bash 15.rosbash.fish 15.rosbash.tcsh 15.rosbash.zsh 20.transform.bash 99.roslisp.sh /usr/etc/ros: genmsg python_logging.conf roscore.xml /usr/etc/ros/genmsg: gencpp geneus genlisp gennodejs genpy Even though ros packages expect it to be in /etc. See /usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/rosgraph/roslogging.py: 104 # search for logging config file in /etc/. If it's not there, 105 # look for it package-relative. 106 fname = 'python_logging.conf' 107 rosgraph_d = rospkg.RosPack().get_path('rosgraph') 108 for f in [os.path.join(rospkg.get_ros_home(), 'config', fname), 109 '/etc/ros/%s'%(fname), 110 os.path.join(rosgraph_d, 'conf', fname)]: 111 if os.path.isfile(f): 112 config_file = f 113 break 114 else: 115 config_file = None 116 117 if config_file is None or not os.path.isfile(config_file): 118 # logging is considered soft-fail 119 sys.stderr.write("WARNING: cannot load logging configuration file, logging is disabled\n") The error message in the last line is how I noticed this issue. python_logging.conf get's installed in two locations (https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/kinetic-devel/tools/rosgraph/CMakeLists.txt): install(FILES conf/python_logging.conf DESTINATION ${CATKIN_GLOBAL_ETC_DESTINATION}/ros) install(FILES conf/python_logging.conf DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_SHARE_DESTINATION}/conf) Currently, the second one ends up at /usr/share/rosgraph/conf/python_logging.conf but the code above looks at os.path.join(rospkg.get_ros_home(), 'config', fname) which results in /usr/share/ros_packages/rosgraph/conf/python_logging.conf (notice the extra "ros_packages"), because $ rospack find rosgraph /usr/share/ros_packages/rosgraph I could have posted this as a bug report for rosgraph, but I guess that this has to be fixed in ros-catkin.eclass because other packages are affected as well (evidenced by the files in /usr/etc).
should be fixed by those commits I think: commit 2701f4e2ecddcdce15248edf2f4d66936b3187ef Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 16:04:16 2016 +0100 dev-ros/pluginlib: look for package.xml in ros_packages too for plugins. Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 commit b12c2eefa7918914d610e06154fb399f02e9a743 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 15:32:24 2016 +0100 dev-ros/rviz_plugin_tutorials: drop install path patch now that rospack returns a correct one. Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 commit b3b61d6cd9e7b3f3b6cc9fb2fd1ad46365751608 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 15:31:35 2016 +0100 dev-ros/rviz: stop patching now that rospack returns proper package path Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 commit e504013dc705a9ab392b14b65716f9b02833ad3c Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 15:30:30 2016 +0100 dev-ros/rospack: add custom patch to return proper package paths with our package.xml moved to ros_packages. Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 commit 8bc7911162549024c93e51bb6dfc24694f822b32 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 15:15:02 2016 +0100 dev-ros/rviz: remove old Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 commit 00242c045f5742c0abdfa6fc75aabf9c51a32580 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 14:56:38 2016 +0100 dev-util/catkin: add some comments in the etc patch Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2 commit b33ece56c59ae0b1c186af967c552efaa9dcd361 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Nov 28 14:55:54 2016 +0100 dev-util/catkin: set global etc destination to /etc, part of bug #598537 Package-Manager: portage-2.3.2
