Require conda-libmamba-solver 25.4 or greater to fix issue with spaces in CONDA_BLD_PATH (#5675)

Author: jaimergp

.devcontainer/post_create.sh

@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ echo "Installing dev dependencies"
     --file "$SRC_CONDA_BUILD/tests/requirements.txt" \
     --file "$SRC_CONDA_BUILD/tests/requirements-Linux.txt" \
     --file "$SRC_CONDA_BUILD/tests/requirements-ci.txt" \
-    "conda>=23.7.0"
+    "conda>=24.11.0"

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ jobs:
         include:
           # minimum Python/conda combo
           - python-version: '3.9'
-            conda-version: 23.7.0
+            conda-version: 24.11.0
             test-type: serial
           - python-version: '3.9'
-            conda-version: 23.7.0
+            conda-version: 24.11.0
             test-type: parallel
           # maximum Python/conda combo
           - python-version: '3.12'
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ jobs:
 
       # TODO: how can we remove this step?
       - name: Install Self
-        run: pip install -e .
+        run: pip install -e . --no-deps --no-build-isolation
 
       - name: Conda Info
         # view test env info (not base)

news/5675-require-newer-cls

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+### Enhancements
+
+* <news item>
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* Require `conda-libmamba-solver` 25.4 or greater to fix issues with spaces in `CONDA_BLD_PATH`. This bumps the minimum `conda` requirement to 24.11. (#5675)
+
+### Deprecations
+
+* <news item>
+
+### Docs
+
+* <news item>
+
+### Other
+
+* <news item>

pyproject.toml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
   "beautifulsoup4",
   "chardet",
-  "conda >=23.7.0",
+  "conda >=24.11.0",
   # Disabled due to conda-index not being available on PyPI
   # "conda-index >=0.4.0",
   "conda-package-handling >=2.2.0",

recipe/meta.yaml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ requirements:
   run:
     - beautifulsoup4
     - chardet
-    - conda >=23.7.0
+    - conda >=24.11.0
     - conda-index >=0.4.0
     - conda-package-handling >=2.2.0
     - evalidate >=2,<3.0a0

tests/requirements.txt

@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
 beautifulsoup4
 chardet
-conda >=23.7.0
+conda >=24.11.0
 conda-index >=0.4.0
-conda-libmamba-solver  # ensure we use libmamba
+conda-libmamba-solver >=25.4.0  # ensure we use libmamba
 conda-package-handling >=2.2.0
+editables
 evalidate >=2,<3.0a0
 filelock
 frozendict >=2.4.2
+hatch-vcs >=0.2.0
+hatchling >=1.12.2
 jinja2
 jsonschema >=4.19
 packaging
+pip
 pkginfo
 psutil
 py-lief
@@ -19,5 +23,6 @@ pytz
 pyyaml
 requests
 ripgrep  # for faster grep
+setuptools
 setuptools_scm  # needed for devenv version detection
 tqdm

tests/test-recipes/metadata/entry_points/bld.bat

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 :: cd %RECIPE_DIR%\..\..\test-package
-:: pip install .
-python setup.py install --old-and-unmanageable
+pip install .
 if errorlevel 1 exit 1

tests/test-recipes/metadata/entry_points/build.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # conda-build/tests/test-recipes/test-package
 # cd $RECIPE_DIR/../../test-package
 
-# pip install .
-python setup.py install --old-and-unmanageable
+pip install .

tests/test-recipes/metadata/entry_points/meta.yaml

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ build:
 requirements:
   build:
     - python
+    - pip
     - setuptools
   run:
     - python

tests/test-recipes/metadata/jinja_load_toml/meta.yaml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ requirements:
   build:
     - python >={{ deps.get("python").lstrip("^") }}
     - pip
+    - setuptools
 
   run:
 {% for dep in deps -%}
@@ -27,4 +28,4 @@ requirements:
 
 build:
   script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install .
-  noarch: python
+  noarch: python

tests/test_api_build.py

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 import uuid
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from contextlib import nullcontext
-from datetime import datetime
 from glob import glob
 from pathlib import Path
 from shutil import which
@@ -1437,10 +1436,6 @@ def test_recursion_layers(testing_config):
     sys.platform != "win32",
     reason="spaces break openssl prefix replacement on *nix",
 )
-@pytest.mark.skipif(
-    datetime.now() < datetime(2025, 5, 31),
-    reason="Unblock CI while https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba/issues/3730 gets a fix",
-)
 def test_croot_with_spaces(testing_metadata, testing_workdir):
     testing_metadata.config.croot = os.path.join(testing_workdir, "space path")
     api.build(testing_metadata)