Force use of nsis 3.01 on Windows

[jaimergp]

Temporary workaround for the CI issues we are seeing as part of #526

[scottwsides]

Hi Jaime, I'm only asking this here because of your recent merge of the branding branch. A minor problem first... for a while I've been seeing

No local packages or working download links found for ruamel_yaml
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('ruamel_yaml')

which normally just keeps going, but now no pkg file gets made, so I didnt know if this was something new. Also, since branding I see

Checking mac signature
pkgutil: option `--check-signature' requires an argument``

which was working in your branch. I'm building just by cloning source, going into my conda environment and doing

python setup.py install

Is this not the standard way? Thanks!

[jaimergp]

To get the dev version I'd do something like this:

$ conda create -n constructor-dev constructor pip
$ conda activate constructor-dev
$ conda remove --force constructor
$ pip install https://github.com/conda/constructor/archive/main.tar.gz --no-deps

Try that and let me know if it works!

[scottwsides]

Thanks, I will try that. But I want to understand why building main doesnt work. Didnt you merge changes from osx-branding into main? I just want to be prepared for changes later (when I forget what has happened) and my installers might break.

[jaimergp]

We don't use that option of pkgutil directly so no clue what might be wrong. If the issue persists please open an issue with more details about your installation and input files.

[scottwsides]

Sorry.... the pkgutil error is a red-herring. Thats in my script and is dying simply because constructor is failing. The pip install is fine... but I'm getting

phoenix:hpccloud-trunk swsides$ cs-env/bin/constructor --verbose chemistream-constructor
platform: osx-64
conda packages download: /Users/swsides/.conda/constructor/osx-64
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "cs-env/bin/constructor", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/Users/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/constructor/main.py", line 244, in main
main_build(dir_path, output_dir=out_dir, platform=args.platform,
File "/Users/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/constructor/main.py", line 112, in main_build
fcp_main(info, verbose=verbose, dry_run=dry_run, conda_exe=conda_exe)
File "/Users/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/constructor/fcp.py", line 398, in main
_urls, dists, approx_tarballs_size, approx_pkgs_size, has_conda = _main(
File "/Users/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/constructor/fcp.py", line 251, in _main
print("specs: %r" % specs)
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

Again... nothing else about my construct.yaml has changed that works with your osx-branding.

[jaimergp]

That looks like your construct.yaml has some kind of issue in the specs field. Can you post the contents of that file here?

[scottwsides]

Yes sure! Thanks for taking a look... oh I'm builfing on osx BTW

---

name: Chemistream
version: 0.60.0
company: Tech-X

license_file: ../eula.txt # [osx or linux]
license_file: ..\eula.txt # [win64]

ignore_duplicate_files: True
keep_pkgs: False
write_condarc: False
initialize_by_default: False

installer_type: exe # [win64]
post_install: post_install.bat # [win64]

Default windows path (NOTE: space after \ is a hack to get trailing '' correct

{% set installpath = "%USERPROFILE%" %} # [win64]
default_prefix_domain_user: "{{ installpath }}\chemistream\ " # [win64]

installer_type: sh # [linux]
post_install: post_install.sh # [linux]

installer_type: pkg # [osx]
post_install: post_install.sh # [osx]

notarization_identity_name: "Developer ID Application: Tech-X Corporation (55699AXW94)" # [osx]
signing_identity_name: "Developer ID Installer: Tech-X Corporation (55699AXW94)" # [osx]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Build channels

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

channels:

• https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge
• https://conda.anaconda.org/anaconda
• file:///winsame/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-channel # [win64]
• file:///Users/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-channel # [osx]
• file:///scr_haswell/swsides/hpccloud-trunk/cs-channel # [linux]
• http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/
• http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2

specs:

• conda # Needed for installer to find env
• launchpad # Launchpad GUI
• makalii # Pure cloud management stuff

---------------------------------------------

Specific image commands for platform?

---------------------------------------------

welcome_image: cs_mac_header.png # [osx]
header_image: cs_mac_welcome.png # [osx]

welcome_image: cs_win_welcome.png # [win64]
header_image: cs_win_header.png # [win64]

icon_image: pkg_icon.png

[scottwsides]

So I switched back to your branch... and I'm still getting same errors. The first error is the ruamel_yaml 'Parse distribution' error. I dont think anything else in my build script has changed. So I cant build at all on mac now... which is kinda serious.

[jaimergp]

Can you DM me on gitter? http://gitter.im/jaimergp

[scottwsides]

Sure... I'm on gitter now, I think. I havent used gitter before.