Download issue?

Re-render can fail if we are not able to download from a specified channel for any reason. Ideally we shouldn’t care about downloads as we are merely trying to parse the meta.yaml. It would be good if we could set some sort of offline mode for conda-build when parsing at a bare minimum. Perhaps there are more elegant solutions though.

$ conda smithy rerender
No circle token.  Create a token at https://circleci.com/account/api and
put it in ~/.conda-smithy/circle.token
No appveyor token. Create a token at https://ci.appveyor.com/api-token and
Put one in ~/.conda-smithy/appveyor.token
No anaconda token. Create a token via
  anaconda auth --create --name conda-smithy --scopes "repos conda api"
and put it in ~/.conda-smithy/anaconda.token
Using Anaconda Cloud api site https://api.anaconda.org
Fetching package metadata ........HTTPError: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch/repodata.json.bz2: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch/

cc @msarahan

[pelson]

I’m not sure there is anything we can do here. We need the index in order to be able to figure out what the build matrix should be. I would love somebody to sort out the caching of the index in conda though - it is bizarre that 2 calls to conda results in 2 index fetches, even though there appears to be a “cache” concept…

[jakirkham]

Closing as PR ( https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/457 ) went in and actually we now use conda-build to render recipes. So this would be something to address in conda or conda-build.