mixin - Manage mixins

The mixin verb offers multiple subverbs to manage the registration, introspection and update of mixin repositories.

mixin add

Add the URL of a mixin repository. Afterwards the mixin information needs to be fetched at least once by invoking colcon mixin update <name>.

name

The name to identify the to-be-added repository.

url

The URL pointing to a yaml file containing an index enumerating .mixin files.

mixin list

Enumerate the name and URL of the registered mixin repositories as well as their mixin files.

[name]

An optional name to only enumerate the mixin files of a specific repository.

mixin remove

Remove the URL of a mixin repository and all its mixin files.

name

The name to identify the to-be-removed repository.

mixin update

Fetch the mixin files from a specific repository. The output indicates which mixin files have been added, updated, are unchanged or are obsolete. Obsolete mixin files are not deleted but renamed (changing the .mixin extension to .obsolete).

[name]

An optional name to only update the mixin files of a specific repository.