birdhousebuilder.recipe.conda

Introduction

birdhousebuilder.recipe.conda is a Buildout recipe to install Anaconda packages. This recipe is used by the Birdhouse project.

Usage

The recipe requires that Anaconda is already installed. It assumes that the default Anaconda location is in your home directory ~/anaconda. Otherwise you need to set the ANACONDA_HOME environment variable.

Supported options

This recipe supports the following options:

anaconda-home

Buildout option with the root folder of the Anaconda installation. Default: $HOME/anaconda. The default location can also be set with the environment variable ANACONDA_HOME. Example:

export ANACONDA_HOME=/opt/anaconda

Search priority is:

  1. anaconda-home in buildout.cfg
  2. $ANACONDA_HOME
  3. $HOME/anaconda
conda-channels
Buildout option (optional) with additional channels of conda packages.
pkgs
A list of packages to install separated by space.
channels
A list of space separated conda channels (optional). These channels are merged with conda-channels option.
env
Name of conda environment used for installation (optional). If environment is missing then all packages are installed in the birdhouse environment (birdhouse).
default-pkgs
A list of packages to install when creating environment separated by space (optional). Default: python
on-update
If set to false conda will not check for updates when running buildout update. Default: false.

Note

If buildout is run in offline mode no network connection will be establish and conda packages will not be installed.

Example usage

The following example buildout.cfg installs the conda packages lxml, nose and matplotlib:

[buildout]
parts = conda_pkgs

conda-channels = birdhouse

[conda_pkgs]
recipe = birdhousebuilder.recipe.conda
pkgs = lxml nose matplotlib owslib
channels = birdhouse asmeurer
env = mytest
default-pkgs = python
on-update = false