Ros distro showing "one"

[mouhyemen]

I followed the README and completed all the steps until docker. On running roscore, I get the following:

Notice that the rosdistro shows "one"

On command line, I get the following output when running rosversion ros

mouhkhan@pop-os ~ $ rosversion ros
<unversioned>

I was expecting to see noetic as the distro. Did I miss anything?

[lucasw]

My roscore reports /rosdistro: Debian, same with rosversion --distro- but I'm using the pre-built debian packages (following https://github.com/lucasw/ros_from_src/blob/robot_state_publisher/ubuntu_2204/README.md), not building completely from source.

I'm not clear where that version string comes from, rosversion is in https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rospkg, but maybe ttps://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rosdistro or does that interact with files from somewhere else to determine version- and sets ROS_DISTRO?

one I think is the same as ros-o so your system reporting that is accurate, and ros-o and the debianized versions are mostly the same- what is the issue with it not reporting as noetic? The changes with noetic are minimal, no ros messages have changed or any other breaking changes to prevent a noetic system talking to a one/Debian system that I'm aware of- it's just that the source code needs some updates to build and run on the newer systems.

[lucasw]

I finally tracked it down to this code which for me is in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rospkg/rosversion.py:

    if args.distro:
        if 'ROS_DISTRO' in os.environ:
            distro_name = os.environ['ROS_DISTRO']
        else:
            distro_name = get_distro_name_from_roscore()
        if not distro_name:
            distro_name = 'Debian'
        printer(distro_name)
        sys.exit(0)

In the noetic version it would have been set to unknown https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rospkg/blob/master/src/rospkg/rosversion.py#L118C1-L126C20

        if not distro_name:
            distro_name = '<unknown>'

Which means your distro is coming from get_distro_name_from_roscore() or $ROS_DISTRO