conda skeleton fails on Windows...

[Chris Barker]

I'm having trouble getting conda skelton pypi to work on Windows 64. Seems to be a problem with patch (note also  that I needed to conda install patch to get this far -- it would be nice id conda could do that for me -- or warn me).

I have the same error with multiple different packages:

PS C:\Users\Chris.Barker\Documents\GNOME-dev\pygnome\conda_packages> conda skeleton pypi geojson

Using url https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/geojson/geojson-1.0.9.tar.gz (13 KB) for geojson.

Downloading geojson (use --no-download to skip this step)

Using cached download

Unpacking geojson...

done

working in c:\users\chris~1.bar\appdata\local\temp\1\tmpjmdlk2conda_skeleton_geojson

Fetching package metadata: ..........

Solving package specifications: .

Applying patch: 'c:\\users\\chris~1.bar\\appdata\\local\\temp\\1\\tmpjmdlk2conda_skeleton_geojson\\pypi-distutils.patch'

69 unparsed bytes left at the end of stream

file 1/1:        core.py

 hunk no.1 doesn't match source file at line 165

  expected:

  actual  :                 raise SystemExit, "error: " + str(msg)

source file is different - core.py

An unexpected error has occurred, please consider sending the

following traceback to the conda GitHub issue tracker at:

    https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues

Include the output of the command 'conda info' in your report.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\Scripts\conda-skeleton-script.py", line 4, in <module>

    sys.exit(main())

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_build\main_skeleton.py", line 131

, in main

    args_func(args, p)

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_build\main_build.py", line 308, i

n args_func

    args.func(args, p)

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_build\main_skeleton.py", line 142

, in execute

    pypi.main(args, parser)

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_build\pypi.py", line 407, in main

    run_setuppy(src_dir, tempdir, args)

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_build\pypi.py", line 596, in run_

setuppy

    apply_patch(join(stdlib_dir, 'distutils'), patch)

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\conda_build\source.py", line 209, in ap

ply_patch

    check_call([patch, '-p0', '-i', path], cwd=src_dir)

  File "C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\subprocess.py", line 540, in check_call

    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['C:\\Users\\Chris.Barker\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\Anaconda\\Scripts\\patch.b

at', '-p0', '-i', 'c:\\users\\chris~1.bar\\appdata\\local\\temp\\1\\tmpjmdlk2conda_skeleton_geojson\\pypi-distutils.patc

h']' returned non-zero exit status -1

Any hints here? does this ever work on windows??

PS C:\Users\Chris.Barker\Documents\GNOME-dev\pygnome\conda_packages> conda info

Current conda install:

             platform : win-64

        conda version : 3.9.1

  conda-build version : 1.10.2

       python version : 2.7.8.final.0

     requests version : 2.5.3

     root environment : C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda  (writable)

  default environment : C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda

     envs directories : C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\envs

        package cache : C:\Users\Chris.Barker\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\pkgs

         channel URLs : http://conda.binstar.org/NOAA-ORR-ERD/win-64/

                        http://conda.binstar.org/NOAA-ORR-ERD/noarch/

                        http://conda.binstar.org/asmeurer/win-64/

                        http://conda.binstar.org/asmeurer/noarch/

                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64/

                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch/

                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-64/

                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch/

          config file : C:\Users\Chris.Barker\.condarc

    is foreign system : False

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[Aaron Meurer]

Yeah, this is a known issue. I think you currently can't use it on
Windows, because it requires a real patch program. Maybe if you find
some Windows port of patch and install that on your PATH (and conda
remove patch).

Aaron Meurer

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[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Aaron Meurer <aaron....@continuum.io> wrote:

Yeah, this is a known issue. I think you currently can't use it on
Windows, because it requires a real patch program.

Darn. maybe it should give an error or something when attempted?

What is it using patch for? could we hack together a bit of pure python that would do that job and remove the dependency?

But it seems the tack I'm taking now is the way to go -- build the conda package description on a another system, then run conda build on Windows...

-Chris

[Aaron Meurer]

It looks like the patch from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm works. We should
replace our current patch package on Windows with that.

patch is used to patch distutils, so that it writes the package
metadata to a file instead of installing the package.

Aaron Meurer

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Aaron Meurer <aaron....@continuum.io> wrote:

It looks like the patch from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm works. We should
replace our current patch package on Windows with that

sounds good -- maybe I'll give it a try.

patch is used to patch distutils, so that it writes the package
metadata to a file instead of installing the package.

got it - that sounds like it may be a pretty simple search and replace operation, but if we can easily get a patch that works, then might as well keep it that way.

Thanks,

  -Chris