Tests fail in batch installation

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Issue

Running miniforge like this:

bash /tmp/Miniforge3-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -p /tmp/miniforge -t

Produces output including this message:

ArgumentError: activate does not accept more than one argument:
['-b', '-p', '/tmp/miniforge', '-t']

And then:

# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

    Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
      File "/tmp/miniforge/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 1132, in __call__                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
        return func(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
      File "/tmp/miniforge/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda/cli/main.py", line 69, in main_subshell                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
        exit_code = do_call(args, p)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
      File "/tmp/miniforge/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda/cli/conda_argparse.py", line 115, in do_call                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
        return args.plugin_subcommand.action(sys.argv[2:])                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
      File "/tmp/miniforge/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda_build/plugin.py", line 35, in index                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
        execute(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
      File "/tmp/miniforge/lib/python3.10/site-packages/conda_build/cli/main_index.py", line 111, in execute                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
        args.dir,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
    AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'dir'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

I attach a complete transcript of trying to install miniforge like this in a CentOS 7 container:

miniforge-batch-log.txt

Installed packages

# packages in environment at /tmp/miniforge:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
_libgcc_mutex             0.1                 conda_forge    conda-forge
_openmp_mutex             4.5                       2_gnu    conda-forge
beautifulsoup4            4.12.2             pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
boltons                   23.0.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
brotli-python             1.1.0           py310hc6cd4ac_0    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                h7f98852_4    conda-forge
c-ares                    1.19.1               hd590300_0    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2023.11.17           hbcca054_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2023.11.17         pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
cffi                      1.15.1          py310h255011f_3    conda-forge
chardet                   5.2.0           py310hff52083_1    conda-forge
charset-normalizer        3.2.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
click                     8.1.7           unix_pyh707e725_0    conda-forge
colorama                  0.4.6              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda                     23.3.1          py310hff52083_0    conda-forge
conda-build               3.27.0          py310hff52083_0    conda-forge
conda-index               0.3.0              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
conda-libmamba-solver     23.3.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda-package-handling    2.2.0              pyh38be061_0    conda-forge
conda-package-streaming   0.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
cryptography              41.0.3          py310h75e40e8_0    conda-forge
filelock                  3.13.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
fmt                       9.1.0                h924138e_0    conda-forge
icu                       73.2                 h59595ed_0    conda-forge
idna                      3.4                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jinja2                    3.1.2              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
jsonpatch                 1.32               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jsonpointer               2.0                        py_0    conda-forge
keyutils                  1.6.1                h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
krb5                      1.21.2               h659d440_0    conda-forge
ld_impl_linux-64          2.40                 h41732ed_0    conda-forge
libarchive                3.6.2                h039dbb9_1    conda-forge
libcurl                   8.2.1                hca28451_0    conda-forge
libedit                   3.1.20191231         he28a2e2_2    conda-forge
libev                     4.33                 h516909a_1    conda-forge
libffi                    3.4.2                h7f98852_5    conda-forge
libgcc-ng                 13.1.0               he5830b7_0    conda-forge
libgomp                   13.1.0               he5830b7_0    conda-forge
libiconv                  1.17                 h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
liblief                   0.12.3               h27087fc_0    conda-forge
libmamba                  1.4.2                hcea66bb_0    conda-forge
libmambapy                1.4.2           py310h1428755_0    conda-forge
libnghttp2                1.52.0               h61bc06f_0    conda-forge
libnsl                    2.0.0                h7f98852_0    conda-forge
libsolv                   0.7.24               hfc55251_3    conda-forge
libsqlite                 3.43.0               h2797004_0    conda-forge
libssh2                   1.11.0               h0841786_0    conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng              13.1.0               hfd8a6a1_0    conda-forge
libuuid                   2.38.1               h0b41bf4_0    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.11.5               h232c23b_1    conda-forge
libzlib                   1.2.13               hd590300_5    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.9.4                hcb278e6_0    conda-forge
lzo                       2.10              h516909a_1000    conda-forge
mamba                     1.4.2           py310h51d5547_0    conda-forge
markupsafe                2.1.3           py310h2372a71_1    conda-forge
more-itertools            10.1.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ncurses                   6.4                  hcb278e6_0    conda-forge
openssl                   3.2.0                hd590300_0    conda-forge
packaging                 23.1               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
patch                     2.7.6             h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
patchelf                  0.17.2               h58526e2_0    conda-forge
pip                       23.2.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pkginfo                   1.9.6              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pluggy                    1.3.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
psutil                    5.9.5           py310h2372a71_1    conda-forge
py-lief                   0.12.3          py310hd8f1fbe_0    conda-forge
pybind11-abi              4                    hd8ed1ab_3    conda-forge
pycosat                   0.6.4           py310h5764c6d_1    conda-forge
pycparser                 2.21               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pyopenssl                 23.2.0             pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.7.1              pyha2e5f31_6    conda-forge
python                    3.10.12         hd12c33a_0_cpython    conda-forge
python-libarchive-c       5.0             py310hff52083_2    conda-forge
python_abi                3.10                    3_cp310    conda-forge
pytz                      2023.3.post1       pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pyyaml                    6.0.1           py310h2372a71_1    conda-forge
readline                  8.2                  h8228510_1    conda-forge
reproc                    14.2.4               h0b41bf4_0    conda-forge
reproc-cpp                14.2.4               hcb278e6_0    conda-forge
requests                  2.31.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ripgrep                   13.0.0               he8a937b_3    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml               0.17.32         py310h2372a71_0    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml.clib          0.2.7           py310h1fa729e_1    conda-forge
setuptools                68.1.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
six                       1.16.0             pyh6c4a22f_0    conda-forge
soupsieve                 2.5                pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.12               h27826a3_0    conda-forge
tomli                     2.0.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
toolz                     0.12.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tqdm                      4.66.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tzdata                    2023c                h71feb2d_0    conda-forge
urllib3                   2.0.4              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
wheel                     0.41.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.6                h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
yaml                      0.2.5                h7f98852_2    conda-forge
yaml-cpp                  0.7.0                h27087fc_2    conda-forge
zstandard                 0.19.0          py310h5764c6d_0    conda-forge
zstd                      1.5.5                hfc55251_0    conda-forge

Environment info

active environment : None
       user config file : /root/.condarc
 populated config files : /tmp/miniforge/.condarc
          conda version : 23.3.1
    conda-build version : 3.27.0
         python version : 3.10.12.final.0
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=x86_64
                          __glibc=2.17=0
                          __linux=5.15.0=0
                          __unix=0=0
       base environment : /tmp/miniforge  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /tmp/miniforge/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
          package cache : /tmp/miniforge/pkgs
                          /root/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /tmp/miniforge/envs
                          /root/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/23.3.1 requests/2.31.0 CPython/3.10.12 Linux/5.15.0-89-generic centos/7.9.2009 glibc/2.17
                UID:GID : 0:0
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False