Devops.CondaFromPypi

# Mac/64 version ansible 1.6.2 
# https://binstar.org/annetheagile/ansible
# 2014-06-04Wed15:18:02
# 2014-07-08Tue12:18:42 Add- create new env info

# What is there now?
$ conda info -e
aws-boto-ansible ~/anaconda/envs/aws-boto-ansible
root * ~/anaconda

# Create a fresh environment
$ conda create -p ~/anaconda/envs/pymongo  anaconda python=2.7
# Rename the folder if desired to later rename, eg pymongo-bottle

$ source activate ~/anaconda/envs/pymongo

# IFF Hardware compatible, eg; Google: site:binstar.org mac aPkg 
$ conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/annetheagile pymongo
$ conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/annetheagile bottle

$ python
Python 2.7.8 |Anaconda 2.0.1 (x86_64)| (default, Jul  2 2014, 15:36:00)  
>>> import bottle
>>> print (bottle.__version__)
0.12.7
>>> import pymongo
>>> print (pymongo.version)
2.7


# How to create Conda packages from pypi 

# Example: 
# https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ansible. 

# Instructions:

# Environment; Mac osx 10.9.3, 64-bit

$ which python
~/anaconda/bin/python
$ python --version
Python 2.7.6 :: Anaconda 2.0.0 (x86_64)

$ conda --version
conda 3.5.2
$ conda info -e
aws-boto-ansible       ~/anaconda/envs/aws-boto-ansible
root                  *  ~/anaconda
$ source activate aws-boto-ansible
...prepending ~/anaconda/envs/aws-boto-ansible/bin to PATH
$ conda info -e
# conda environments:
aws-boto-ansible      * ~/anaconda/envs/aws-boto-ansible
root                    ~/anaconda

# Prep: Make and install 1 other Pypi package dependency that is not in anaconda;
# httplib2

$ # for pypi package, conda knows their names

$ conda skeleton pypi ansible


$ sudo conda build ansible
Password:
BUILD START: ansible-1.6.2-py27_0
Fetching package metadata: ...
Solving package specifications: .
The following packages will be linked:
    package                    |            build
    ---------------------------|-----------------
    ecdsa-0.11                 |           py27_0   hard-link
    jinja2-2.7.2               |           py27_0   hard-link
    markupsafe-0.18            |           py27_0   hard-link
    openssl-1.0.1g             |                0   hard-link
    paramiko-1.14.0            |           py27_0   hard-link
    pycrypto-2.6.1             |           py27_0   hard-link
    python-2.7.7               |                0   hard-link
    pyyaml-3.11                |           py27_0   hard-link
    readline-6.2               |                2   hard-link
    setuptools-3.6             |           py27_0   hard-link
    sqlite-3.8.4.1             |                0   hard-link
    tk-8.5.15                  |                0   hard-link
    yaml-0.1.4                 |                1   hard-link
    zlib-1.2.7                 |                1   hard-link
...
===== ansible-1.6.2-py27_0 OK =====
TEST END: ansible-1.6.2-py27_0
# If you want to upload this package to binstar.org later, type: 
# $ binstar upload /Users/annemoroney/anaconda/conda-bld/osx-64/ansible-1.6.2-py27_0.tar.bz2 
# To have conda build upload to binstar automatically, use
# $ conda config --set binstar_upload yes


$ binstar upload ~/anaconda/conda-bld/osx-64/ansible-1.6.2-py27_0.tar.bz2


# GOTCHA's
# Cannot do standard install
# $ conda install ansible
# Need its dependencies first

# Don't do #1 of 2 
$ conda build --build-recipe ansible
...conda-build: error: unrecognized arguments: --build-recipe

# Don't do #2 of 2 
$ conda build ansible
...creating /usr/share/ansible
error: could not create '/usr/share/ansible': Permission denied

Urls;
[1] Input; https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ansible
[1A] Source code; https://github.com/ansible/ansible
[2] Output; https://binstar.org/annetheagile/ansible

Docs that Helped;
[] Blog about Pypi to Conda conversions; http://www.peterbronez.com/Using%20PyPi%20Packages%20with%20Conda
[] Google search the binstar site, which enables seeking particular versions. Here, 2.29 doesn't exist but 2.23 does:
site:https://binstar.org/ boto 2.23
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fbinstar.org%2F+boto+2.23&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#
[] A confusing thread but one that did confirm the above. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18640305/how-to-keep-track-of-pip-installed-packages-in-an-anaconda-conda-env

Docs that did Not help; //FUTURE - help edit the docs
[] Binstar Search is mostly unhelpful, unless there are very few packages. The reason is that
https://binstar.org/search?q=ansible
[] Binstar Docs / Installing Conda packages. I couldn't get the syntax to work ; http://docs.binstar.org/conda.html
[] This 'Binstar' repo offers to let you install by pip, which is not helpful since I went to Binstar to install by conda; https://binstar.org/pypi/ansible

FUTURE;
[1B] Running from source might be recommended; http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html#getting-ansible
Ansible is trivially easy to run from a checkout, root permissions are not required to use it and there is no software to actually install for Ansible itself. No daemons or database setup are required. Because of this, many users in our community use the development version of Ansible all of the time,
[] Ansible Examples, included in repo; https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/hadoop
[] Ansible Galaxy, for Jenkins; https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/440
This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy), author of Ansible for DevOps. You can find out more about the book at http://ansiblefordevops.com/, and learn about the author at http://jeffgeerling.com/.

[] Ansible-Vagrant helper; be able to update, ping hosts. Updated 20d ago.
https://github.com/michaelcontento/ansible-vagrant
$ ansible-vagrant-update-hosts
[]On conda;
https://binstar.org/pypi/ansible-vagrant

PAST / Related;
[] httplib2 is A comprehensive HTTP client library in Python
http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/wiki/Examples
import httplib2
h = httplib2.Http(".cache")
resp, content = h.request("http://example.org/", "GET")

OTHER / Slightly Related;

Vagrant
[] Vagrant Docs ; https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/providers/basic_usage.html
[] 2014.01 Vagrant / Ansible / Ec2 tutorial by Cloud Scaleable startups blog; http://www.iheavy.com/2014/01/16/how-to-deploy-on-amazon-ec2-with-vagrant/
[] 2013.11 Vagrant / Ansible / Hadoop ; http://leonidmirsky.com/ansible/hadoop/devops/2013/11/19/creating-hadoop-test-environment-with-ansible-and-vagrant.html
[] 2013.08 Vagrant Synced Folders Permissions ; http://jeremykendall.net/2013/08/09/vagrant-synced-folders-permissions/
[] 2014.02 Vagrant / Docker Tutorial for Mac ; http://johnzanchetta.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/setting-up-a-docker-dev-environment-on-mac-os-x/