Guidelines (Rules)

• see also this Building External Packages From Git Tags
• start build numbers at 100 to get conda to pick our channel builds over other channels
• add descriptive build strings to help specify uniquify our package canonical names
  • like openmpi_verbs_lsf
• record log files of all builds
• print environment and compiler used at the top of all build.sh scripts
• record the md5 sum of the package file in the meta.yaml
• just use the root environment of the miniconda install on the correct host, deactivate any conda environments you might be in
• use ana-rel-manage -c bld-pkg to build packages. This does the following extra things:
  • save a log file, manage the filename, repeat builds of same package name get new name
  • moved built package into our file based channel
  • re-indexes the channel so we can install the package