cate-conda

This repository provides scripts used to build and deploy various Cate packages for the Anaconda and Miniconda Python distributions.

See also the cate-installer repo which is used to build a stand-alone installer for Cate.

Available Cate Conda packages

• cate - the default, complete Cate distribution for Python
• cate-cli - same as cate but creates start menu / desktop shortcuts for the Cate command-line interface (CLI) during installation using conda install
• cate-util - just the cate.util Python package with optional dependencies

Building Cate Conda packages

Install conda-build in your root Miniconda:

$ source activate
$ conda install conda-build

Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/CCI-Tools/cate-conda.git

Build a Conda package cate-<recipe> (see recipes/<recipe>/meta.yaml):

$ cd cate-conda
$ conda build -c conda-forge -c defaults recipes/<recipe>

The -c (or --channel) option adds extra Anaconda channels to search for package dependencies. We must add defaults to search for Anaconda default packagers first, then for packages from conda-forge, which hosts the cartopy versions required by Cate.

Testing the Conda package

To test the new Conda package cate in a test environment cate-test, type

$ conda create -n cate-test python=3
$ source activate cate-test
$ conda install -c conda-forge --use-local cate
...
$ cate --help

Deploying the Conda package

Just run the package build step with --user <channel>:

$ conda build --user ccitools -c conda-forge -c defaults recipes/<recipe>