skip installation of rti Connext 6.0.1

[mikaelarguedas]

Otherwise it tends to hang forever: #523

Connext 6.0.1 version is used for ROS Humble and up
https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2000.html

[clalancette]

I'm not really against this change, but I also admit I don't understand why it is needed. Has action-ros-ci been broken since 2022?

[mikaelarguedas]

I'm not really against this change, but I also admit I don't understand why it is needed. Has action-ros-ci been broken since 2022?

Ok so I looked a bit closer at this

The current behavior is that it tries to install the package and fails because the license is not accepted (more history at the end of this comment)

  config: RTI license agreement for non-commercial and pre-commercial use NOT accepted.
  rti-connext-dds-6.0.1: RTI license agreement for non-commercial and pre-commercial use NOT accepted.
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/rti-connext-dds-6.0.1_6.0.1.25-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   new rti-connext-dds-6.0.1 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/rti-connext-dds-6.0.1_6.0.1.25-1_amd64.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It's not really optimal to download 150MB deb that then fails to install.

We could go one of 2 ways:

• Actually install connext on action-ros-ci -> remove the skip key rti-* and accept the licence
• Not install connext and merge this PR as is

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History:
The installation was hanging (pretty unclear why) so the skip key was added #523
This had a side effect of removing the noninteractive impacting other packages: #701
Since noninteractive mode is on it doesnt hang but downloads the deb and then fails to install it

[clalancette]

We could go one of 2 ways:

* Actually install connext on action-ros-ci -> remove the skip key rti-* and accept the licence

* Not install connext and merge this PR as is

Thanks for the additional analysis here, it is much appreciated. Ultimately I'll leave the call here up to @christophebedard , but my opinion is that we should do option 2 and take this PR as-is.

[christophebedard]

I agree. Given the ways things are currently, this is simpler.

[christophebedard]

Given that users are reportedly currently not able to successfully install Connext 6.0.1 using action-ros-ci, I think it should be good to release this as a new patch release: 0.3.12.