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"Warning - a newer version of conda exists" - logged as a warning on Windows

See original GitHub issue

Below a snippet of the log, installing conda on windows-latest with this config:

with:
  auto-update-environment: false
  activate-environment: testenv

If you notice the ##[warning] below, I think that’s what’s causing the warning to get logged and reported as an annotation in actions ui? Interestingly, it does only happen on windows runners.

Is there any way to suppress that?

:: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

# Create test environment...
############################

C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /D /S /C "C:\Miniconda\condabin\conda.bat create --name testenv"
Collecting package metadata: ...working... done
Solving environment: ...working... done

## Package Plan ##

  environment location: C:\Miniconda\envs\testenv

Preparing transaction: ...working... done
Verifying transaction: ...working... done
Executing transaction: ...working... done
##[warning]

==> WARNING: A newer version of conda exists. <==
  current version: 4.6.14
  latest version: 4.8.3

Please update conda by running

    $ conda update -n base -c defaults conda

==> WARNING: A newer version of conda exists. <==
  current version: 4.6.14

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:13 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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weiji14commented, Sep 13, 2020

That sounds like a good idea. Maybe add to the issue linked so others can go and bump a +1

Cool, feature request opened at https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1580, let’s all go and add our upvotes! Or if someone wants to submit a PR, go for it too!

Is this issue for Windows only? As in #58 (comment), I’m also seeing it on Ubuntu. Could it be renamed if for both? Or I can open a new issue for Ubuntu otherwise.

I thought that
with:
  miniconda-version: "latest"
would fix it, but it does not. (What does that statement do?)

The reason the warning exists for Ubuntu too is because the latest conda version is 4.8.4, but only 4.8.3 installers are available (see https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/). The ‘miniconda-version: “latest”’ is only able to pull down the ‘Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh’ installer, which is at 4.8.3 right now.

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bollwyvlcommented, Oct 6, 2020

#79 has added the bootstrap approach. I decided to not clean it up, as it will get overwritten if a condarc-file is specified. Otherwise, I just don’t think folk will care enough to have exactly the hottest version of conda.