Conda-build: --use-local or --offline mode required

[ijstokes]

Building conda packages should have the option of --use-local or the equivalent of --offline so the package build will rely exclusively on the local package cache. AFAICT at the moment this is not possible.

[pelson]

AFAICT at the moment this is not possible.

It is possible to just change your condarc's channels. Also, it is possible to do:

conda build ... -c file://my_local_channel --override-channels

Of course, none of this is automatic to filter all of the http channels as --offline does.

[phumke]

+1 to this.

Looping in #282 since it is a related request.

[ezyang]

Note that if you have a local build of a package, conda-build will automatically pick it up (so you don't need --use-local in the traditional conda install sense)

[aldanor]

It would be really handy to have an --offline version at the very least; not being able to run conda build when disconnected (although all the dependencies are already cached and/or are locally built anyways) is pretty sad.