Install both robotology-superbuild from source and ros noetic in conda result in dependency error (February 2024)

[traversaro]

We experienced this today with @marcoforleo @Gianlucamilani @dariosortino .

mamba create -n testros -c conda-forge -c robostack-staging ace asio assimp boost eigen freetype gazebo glew glfw glm "graphviz==8.*" gsl ipopt irrlicht libjpeg-turbo libmatio libode libxml2 nlohmann_json pcl opencv portaudio qt-main sdl sdl2 sqlite tinyxml tinyxml2 spdlog lua soxr qhull cmake compilers make ninja pkg-config tomlplusplus libzlib ffmpeg onnxruntime-cpp ros-noetic-desktop

reports this error:

traversaro@IITBMP014LW012:~$ mamba create -n testros -c conda-forge -c robostack-staging ace asio assimp boost eigen freetype gazebo glew glfw glm "graphviz==8.*" gsl ipopt irrlicht libjpeg-turbo libmatio libode libxml2 nlohmann_json pcl opencv portaudio qt-main sdl sdl2 sqlite tinyxml tinyxml2 spdlog lua soxr qhull cmake compilers make ninja pkg-config tomlplusplus libzlib ffmpeg onnxruntime-cpp ros-noetic-desktop

Looking for: ['ace', 'asio', 'assimp', 'boost', 'eigen', 'freetype', 'gazebo', 'glew', 'glfw', 'glm', 'graphviz=8', 'gsl', 'ipopt', 'irrlicht', 'libjpeg-turbo', 'libmatio', 'libode', 'libxml2', 'nlohmann_json', 'pcl', 'opencv', 'portaudio', 'qt-main', 'sdl', 'sdl2', 'sqlite', 'tinyxml', 'tinyxml2', 'spdlog', 'lua', 'soxr', 'qhull', 'cmake', 'compilers', 'make', 'ninja', 'pkg-config', 'tomlplusplus', 'libzlib', 'ffmpeg', 'onnxruntime-cpp', 'ros-noetic-desktop']

robostack-staging/linux-64                                    No change
robostack-staging/noarch                                      No change
conda-forge/noarch                                  13.6MB @   5.7MB/s  2.6s
conda-forge/linux-64                                32.6MB @   8.2MB/s  4.3s
Could not solve for environment specs
The following packages are incompatible
├─ gazebo is installable with the potential options
│  ├─ gazebo 11.0.0 would require
│  │  └─ tinyxml2 >=7.1.0,<7.2.0a0 , which can be installed;
│  ├─ gazebo [11.0.0|11.1.0|...|11.5.0] would require
│  │  └─ tinyxml2 >=8.0.0,<8.1.0a0 , which can be installed;
│  ├─ gazebo [11.10.0|11.10.1|...|11.9.1] would require
│  │  └─ tinyxml2 >=9.0.0,<10.0a0 , which can be installed;
│  ├─ gazebo [11.11.0|11.12.0] would require
│  │  └─ assimp >=5.2.4,<5.2.5.0a0 , which can be installed;
│  ├─ gazebo [11.12.0|11.13.0] would require
│  │  └─ assimp >=5.2.5,<5.2.6.0a0 , which can be installed;
│  ├─ gazebo [11.5.0|11.5.1|...|11.9.0] would require
│  │  └─ dartsim >=6.10.1,<6.11.0a0 , which requires
│  │     └─ assimp >=5.0.1,<5.1.0a0 , which can be installed;
│  ├─ gazebo 9.15.0, which can be installed;
│  └─ gazebo 11.14.0 would require
│     └─ graphviz >=9.0.0,<10.0a0 , which can be installed;
├─ graphviz 8**  is not installable because it conflicts with any installable versions previously reported;
└─ ros-noetic-desktop is installable and it requires
   └─ ros-noetic-urdf-tutorial, which requires
      └─ ros-noetic-rviz with the potential options
         ├─ ros-noetic-rviz 1.14.19 would require
         │  ├─ assimp >=5.2.5,<5.2.6.0a0 , which can be installed;
         │  ├─ ros-distro-mutex 0.4.* noetic, which can be installed;
         │  └─ ros-noetic-laser-geometry with the potential options
         │     ├─ ros-noetic-laser-geometry 1.6.7 would require
         │     │  └─ ros-noetic-tf with the potential options
         │     │     ├─ ros-noetic-tf 1.13.2 would require
         │     │     │  └─ graphviz >=6.0.2,<7.0a0 , which can be installed;
         │     │     └─ ros-noetic-tf 1.13.2 would require
         │     │        └─ ros-distro-mutex 0.5.* , which requires
         │     │           ├─ boost-cpp 1.82.* , which can be installed;
         │     │           └─ gazebo 11.* , which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported;         │     └─ ros-noetic-laser-geometry 1.6.7 would require
         │        └─ ros-distro-mutex 0.5.* , which cannot be installed (as previously explained);
         └─ ros-noetic-rviz 1.14.20 would require
            ├─ assimp >=5.3.1,<5.3.2.0a0  but there are no viable options
            │  ├─ assimp 5.3.1 would require
            │  │  └─ boost-cpp >=1.78.0,<1.78.1.0a0 , which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported;
            │  └─ assimp 5.3.1 conflicts with any installable versions previously reported;
            ├─ ros-distro-mutex 0.5.* , which cannot be installed (as previously explained);
            └─ tinyxml2 >=10.0.0,<11.0a0 , which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported.

The problem is the graphviz==8 pin, added in #1538 as a workaround for #1537 . As I closed that issue without leaving one open, I forgot about this. Probably I should have left the issue open, or at least open a new one.

[traversaro]

Fixed by #1603 . It would be cool to track these kind of regressions (such as #1230) with CI, but I do not know how to cleanly do that.