Anaconda Enterprise: Documentation

# Configuring your PyPI or Anaconda Repository mirror (AER 2.25)

NOTE: This documentation is for Anaconda Repository 2.3.0+. For documentation of older versions, please see 2.2 documentation.

## Before you begin

Before installing Anaconda Repository 2.3.0 and using the updated features listed below, you must install the supplemental cas-mirror package:

    conda install cas-mirror

Although some aspects of mirroring PyPI and Anaconda Repository differ, the methodology for the specification of which packages to mirror is identical. You can specify:

- platforms (valid options are: ‘linux-64’, ‘linux-32’, ‘osx-64’, ‘win-32’, and ‘win-64’)
- pkg_list
- python_versions (valid options are: 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4)
- license_blacklist (valid options are: AGPL, GPL2, GPL3, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, PSF, Public-Domain, Proprietary and Other) *
- blacklist
- whitelist

Other useful configuration options include:

- remote_url

  Specifies the remote URL from which the conda packages and the Anaconda and Miniconda installers are downloaded. The default value is: https://repo.continuum.io/.

- channels

  Specifies the remote channels from which conda packages are downloaded. The default is a list of the channels <remote_url>/pkgs/free/ and <remote_url>/pkgs/pro/

NOTE: the license_blacklist feature is not available for PyPI due to the non-standardization of license metadata for these packages.

All specification information should be included in the same file, and can be passed to the anaconda-server-sync-pypi or anaconda-server-sync-conda command via the –mirror-config argument:

    anaconda-server-sync-conda --mirror-config /etc/binstar/mirrors/conda.yaml
    anaconda-server-sync-pypi --mirror-config /etc/binstar/mirrors/pypi.yaml

## Platform-specific mirroring

By default, the anaconda-server-sync-pypi and anaconda-server-sync-conda tools will mirror all platforms. If you know that you will not need all platforms, it will save you time and disk space if you edit the YAML file to specify the platform(s) you want mirrored:

    platforms:
      - linux-64
      - win-32

## Package-specific mirroring

In some cases you may want to mirror only a small subset of the Anaconda Repository. Rather than blacklisting a long list of packages you do not want mirrored, you can instead simply enumerate the list of packages you DO want mirrored.

NOTE: This argument cannot be used with the blacklist, whitelist or license_blacklist arguments. It can be used with the platform-specific argument.

For example:

    pkg_list:
    - accelerate
    - pyqt
    - zope

This example mirrors only the three packages: Accelerate, PyQt & Zope. All other packages will be completely ignored.

## Python version-specific mirroring

A new feature in Anaconda Repository 2.3.0 allows you to mirror the Anaconda Repository with a Python version or versions specified.

For example:

    python_versions:
    - 3.3

Mirrors only Anaconda packages built for Python 3.3.

## “License blacklist” mirroring

As of Anaconda Repository 2.3.0, the Anaconda mirroring script supports license blacklisting for the following license families:

- AGPL
- GPL2
- GPL3
- LGPL
- BSD
- MIT
- Apache
- PSF
- Public-Domain
- Proprietary
- Other

For example:

    license_blacklist:
      - GPL2
      - GPL3
      - BSD

Mirrors all the packages in the repository EXCEPT those that are GPL2-, GPL3-, or BSD-licensed, because those three licenses have been completely blacklisted.

NOTE: Older versions of Anaconda Mirror support only license blacklisting for GPL. If you are using an older version of Anaconda Repository, see the documentation for customizing your PyPI or Anaconda Repository mirror.

## “Blacklist” mirroring

The blacklist allows access to all packages EXCEPT those explicitly listed.

For example:

    blacklist:
      - bzip2
      - tk
      - openssl

Mirrors the entire Anaconda Repository except the bzip2, tk, and openssl packages.

## “Whitelist” mirroring

The whitelist functions in combination with either the license_blacklist or blacklist arguments, AND re-adds packages that were excluded by a previous argument.

For example:

    license_blacklist:
      - GPL2
      - GPL3
    whitelist:
      - readline

Mirrors the entire Anaconda Repository EXCEPT any GPL2- or GPL3-licenses packages, but including readline, despite the fact that it is GPL3-licensed.

## Combining multiple mirror configurations

You may find that combining two or more of the arguments above is the simplest way to get the exact combination of packages that you want.

The platform argument is evaluated before any other argument. For example:

    platforms:
      - linux-64
    pkg_list:
      - dnspython
      - shapely
      - gdal

Mirrors ONLY linux-64 distributions of the dnspython, shapely and gdal packages.

If the license_blacklist and blacklist arguments are combined, the license_blacklist is evaluated first, and the blacklist is a supplemental modifier:

    license_blacklist:
      - GPL2
    blacklist:
      - pyqt

In this example, the mirror configuration does not mirror GPL2-licensed packages. It does not mirror the GPL3 licensed package pyqt because it has been blacklisted. It does mirror all other packages in the repository.

If the blacklist and whitelist arguments are both employed, the blacklist is evaluated first, with the whitelist functioning as a modifier:

    blacklist:
     - accelerate
     - astropy
     - pygments
    whitelist:
     - accelerate

This mirrors all packages in the repository except astropy and pygments. Despite being listed on the blacklist, accelerate IS mirrored because it is listed on the whitelist.