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Building Conda packages for the LSST stack
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trying to install the conda stack with eups distributed anaconda does not fail helpfully #65

Open danielsf opened 8 years ago

danielsf commented 8 years ago

It is possible (however ill-advised) to run

conda install lsst-apps

from the anaconda/miniconda that you get when you run newinstall.sh

This fails (as it should) because you suddenly have to conflicting copies of EUPS on your machine, but it does not fail in a way that tells you why. We should probably have a helpful failure message here informing the user what he or she did wrong.

rhiannonlynne commented 8 years ago

Wow - somebody actually tried that?

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:53 PM danielsf notifications@github.com wrote:

It is possible (however ill-advised) to run

conda install lsst-apps

from the anaconda/miniconda that you get when you run newinstall.sh

This fails (as it should) because you suddenly have to conflicting copies of EUPS on your machine, but it does not fail in a way that tells you why. We should probably have a helpful failure message here informing the user what he or she did wrong.

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mjuric commented 8 years ago

Note to self: the way to fix this is by having the eups stub check that EUPS_DIR is pointing to the conda-in installed EUPS.