Anaconda Enterprise: Documentation

# Customizing mirrors

- Before you start
- Customizing your mirror
- Mirroring a platform-specific list
- Mirroring a package-specific list
- Mirroring Python version-specific packages
- Mirroring with a license blacklist
- Mirroring with a blacklist
- Mirroring with a whitelist
- Combining multiple mirror configurations

This section explains how you can customize your PyPI or Anaconda repository mirror.

NOTE: This documentation applies to versions of Repository 2.26 and newer. For versions between 2.23 and 2.26, see 2.23 documentation. For older versions, see 2.20 documentation.

## Before you start

Your Anaconda Repository should already be installed and configured, as well as the mirroring tool `cas-mirror`. See mirroring an Anaconda repository.

## Customizing your mirror

The following commands can be used with the `cas-mirror` tool:

- `cas-sync`: Creates or updates an existing local Anaconda package repository. The packages are saved into a local directory. This directory is defined by the `mirror_dir` configuration setting.
- `cas-sync-api-v4`: Creates or updates an existing remote Anaconda package repository. The packages are uploaded into an account of an existing Anaconda repository instance. The account and instance are controlled by the `dest_channel` and `dest_site` configuration settings.
- `cas-merge`: Combines delta repositories into an existing Anaconda package repository. A delta repository contains the changes between the local and remote Anaconda package repositories. Delta repositories are generated by `cas-sync` using the `delta` configuration setting.

All the commands can read a YAML configuration file specified by the `--file` (or `-f`) command line option. The YAML file can contain any of the following valid keys:

### remote_url

Conda packages, Anaconda installers and Miniconda installers are fetched from this remote URL.

DEFAULT: `https://repo.continuum.io/`

### channels

Conda packages are fetched from these remote channels.

DEFAULT: A list of these channels:

- `<remote_url>/pkgs/main/`
- `<remote_url>/pkgs/free/`
- `<remote_url>/pkgs/pro/`

### mirror_dir

The mirror is saved in this local directory.

NOTE: A full mirror of the Anaconda repository uses about 100 GB of disk space. Make sure the mirror directory has enough space.

DEFAULT: `/opt/cas-mirror`

### platforms

Conda packages and installers for this list of platforms are mirrored.

DEFAULT: A list of all platforms. This is:

`['osx-32', 'osx-64', 'win-32', 'win-64', 'linux-32', 'linux-64', 'linux-armv6l', 'linux-armv7l', 'linux-ppc64le']`

### fetch_installers

Whether to fetch all Anaconda and Miniconda installers from `remote_url`.

If `fetch_installers` is set to `false` then installers are not fetched.

DEFAULT: `true`

### python_versions

Python versions to mirror.

DEFAULT: All versions.

EXAMPLE: `['2.7', '3.6']`

### pkg_list

An explicit list of package names to be mirrored.

When this list is provided, the `license_blacklist`, `blacklist` and `whitelist` keys are not allowed to be set.

### license_blacklist

A list of licenses to be excluded from the mirror.

The license families that can be blacklisted are:

- AGPL
- APACHE
- BSD
- GPL2
- GPL3
- LGPL
- MIT
- PROPRIETARY
- PUBLICDOMAIN
- PSF
- OTHER
- NONE

### blacklist

A list of package names to be excluded from the mirror.

### whitelist

A list of package names to be included in the mirror.

The whitelist overrides the blacklists. If a package is both blacklisted and whitelisted, then it is included and mirrored.

EXAMPLE: The package `numpy` has a license in the license family `BSD`.

If `license_blacklist` contains `BSD` and `whitelist` is empty, then `numpy` and all other BSD licensed packages are excluded and not mirrored.

If `license_blacklist` contains `BSD` and `whitelist` contains `numpy`, then the `numpy` package is included and mirrored and other BSD licensed packages are excluded and not mirrored.

### dest_channel

Optional channel to use when synchronizing with a local Repository instance.

DEFAULT: “anaconda”

### dest_site

Optional site to use when synchronizing with a local Repository instance.

DEFAULT: None

### delta

If `delta` is true, then a delta is generated from `mirror_dir`.

If `delta` is false, then the changes are applied directly.

### delta_dir

The delta is generated (or merged) onto this directory.

If this is not specified, the generated delta directory is named `delta-<timestamp>-pkgs`. `<timestamp>` is replaced with a timestamp.

### max_retries

The number of retries to allow before failing.

When it is set to 0, `cas-mirror` fails at the first error. Default is 0.

This is supported only for the `cas-sync` and `cas-sync-api-v4` commands.

DEFAULT: 0

### safe

If `safe` is `true`, synchronizing repositories or merging delta directories never delete anything.

DEFAULT: `false`

### repodata_source

Uses a `repodata.json` (or `repodata.json.bz2`) as the source of existing packages.

This file must be in the mirror directory for a specific platform.

EXAMPLE: `/mirror/linux-64/repodata.json`

## Mirroring a platform-specific list

By default, `cas-sync` and `cas-sync-api-v4` mirror all platforms. If you do not need all platforms, you can save time and disk space by editing the `yaml` file to specify which platform(s) you want to mirror.

EXAMPLE:

    platforms:
      - linux-64
      - win-32

## Mirroring a package-specific list

You may want to mirror only a small subset of Repository. Rather than blacklisting a long list of packages you do not want to be mirrored, you can instead simply enumerate the list of packages you do want to mirror.

EXAMPLE: This example mirrors only the three packages Accelerate, PyQt and Zope. All other packages are ignored:

    package_list:
    - accelerate
    - pyqt
    - zope

## Mirroring Python version-specific packages

You may want to mirror only a subset of versions.

EXAMPLE: This example mirrors only Anaconda packages built for Python 3.3:

    python_versions:
      - 3.3

## Mirroring with a license blacklist

As of Repository 2.26.0, the Anaconda mirroring script supports license blacklisting for the following license families:

- AGPL
- APACHE
- BSD
- GPL2
- GPL3
- LGPL
- MIT
- PROPRIETARY
- PUBLICDOMAIN
- PSF
- OTHER
- NONE

EXAMPLE: This example mirrors all the packages in the repository except those that are GPL2-, GPL3- or BSD-licensed:

    license_blacklist:
      - GPL2
      - GPL3
      - BSD

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

## Mirroring with a blacklist

The `blacklist` allows access to all packages except those explicitly listed.

EXAMPLE: This example mirrors the entire Repository except the bzip2, tk and openssl packages:

    blacklist:
      - bzip2
      - tk
      - openssl

## Mirroring with a whitelist

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

EXAMPLE: This example mirrors the entire Repository except any GPL2- or GPL3-licensed packages, but including readline, despite the fact that it is GPL3-licensed:

    license_blacklist:
      - GPL2
      - GPL3
    whitelist:
      - readline

## 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 platforms argument is evaluated before any other argument.

EXAMPLE: This example mirrors only linux-64 distributions of the dnspython, shapely and gdal packages:

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

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

EXAMPLE: 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 Repository:

    license_blacklist:
      - GPL2
    blacklist:
      - pyqt

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

EXAMPLE: This example 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:

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