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This repository contains recipes for building various packages needed for Astropy continuous integration and affiliated packages. It is needed because conda cannot install all required versions. For example, we need to build the Python 3.2 packages because these are not available by default.

The packages are uploaded to http://binstar.org, and can be seen at https://binstar.org/astropy-ci-extras.

To make use of these packages, you then need to make use of the astropy-ci-extras channel when using conda:

conda install -c astropy-ci-extras ...

Setup

The first time you want to build binaries, you will need to do the following:

# You need libbz2 to get bz2 support in python
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

# Install miniconda
wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O miniconda.sh
chmod +x miniconda.sh
./miniconda.sh -b
export PATH=$HOME/miniconda/bin:$PATH
conda update --yes conda

# Install the conda build system
conda install --yes conda-build

# Install binstar
conda install binstar

Building

To build binary packages:

# get some of the recipes you need....
git clone https://github.com/astropy/conda-recipes.git

# build some stuff...
cd conda-recipes-astropy

# order matters for the next three
conda build python3.2
CONDA_PY=32 conda build setuptools
CONDA_PY=32 conda build pip

# build numpy before anything that needs numpy, of course
CONDA_PY=32 conda build numpy-1.6.2

# for the sake of this example, suppose this was numpy 1.6.1 you just built
CONDA_PY=32 CONDA_NPY=16 conda build scipy

Uploading

To upload manually:

binstar login
binstar upload ~/miniconda/conda-bld/linux-64/package-name-here.tar.bz2