This patch backports an update to the roslaunch API from ROS Lunar to ROS Kinetic to allow passing arguments. Specifically, it backports this commit from this pull request. The only affected file is /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslaunch/config.py. A backup file is created as /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslaunch/config.py.original and it is restored when the package is uninstalled. If ros-kinetic-roslaunch were to receive an update, it should update this backup file directly instead of overwriting this patch. In addition, this patch will pull the changes from the updated roslaunch, so you will always keep the newest changes.
Note that you can delete the ros-kinetic-roslaunch-patch folder after installation, as it is not needed afterwards. Alternatively, clone it while you are in /tmp.
To install, run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/stateSpaceRobotics/ros-kinetic-roslaunch-patch.git
cd ros-kinetic-roslaunch-patch
sudo dpkg -i ros-kinetic-roslaunch-patched_1.0.1_amd64.debTo uninstall, simply run:
sudo dpkg --remove ros-kinetic-roslaunch-patched_1.0.1_amd64.deb