Colcon bundle for local packages

[badrmoutalib]

Hello,
I'm facing an issue with colcon bundle. I'm trying to bundle a simulation app using custom packages that are not available on ros-melodic apt source list because they are only available for kinetic. As you might know only melodic is supported now on AWS robomaker and to run the simulation i need to use packages that are not available in apt. When i transfer the packages into opt/ros/melodic/share with their respective lib dependencies and bundle them, colcon tries to look for them still on apt and gives me this error :
ERROR:colcon.colcon_ros_bundle.task:Could not find key for kineticpkg
KeyError: 'ros-melodic-kineticpkg'
Here kineticpkg is the pkg that apt can't find.
How would you suggest going about fixing this issue ?
Thank you !

Originally posted by @badrmoutalib in #121 (comment)

[murphm8]

The easiest way to fix this would be to include the packages you want in your workspace, and build them. colcon bundle will not attempt to download/install any packages which are built into the local workspace.

Installing them into opt/ros/melodic/share won't work since colcon bundle isn't analyzing what is already in that path, it keeps track of installed packages elsewhere.