Conda: documentation regarding conda mirroring (cas-mirror) is outdated (not working)

[ssbarnea]

In order to bypass the current outage problems that we encountered today with repo.continuum.io I tried to follow the mirroring instructions from https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda-repository/cli-cas-installer and I discovered that they don't really work.

$conda create -n mirror python=3.4
$source activate mirror
$conda install -y cas-mirror
Fetching package metadata .......
Solving package specifications: .
Error: Package missing in current linux-64 channels:
  - cas-mirror

You can search for packages on anaconda.org with

    anaconda search -t conda cas-mirror

Even the suggested command found nothing.

[HugoTian]

Basically, cas-mirror is enterprise product, and not offer for free. Here is some info in documentation

A token from Continuum is required to install cas-installer, and you should have received it when your organization purchased Anaconda Server, Workgroup or Enterprise. If you no longer have access to your token, submit a support ticket or contact us at priority support. You can also email support at the email address given to you by your sales representative.

We will have better message in future

[ssbarnea]

At least you could specify this in the documentation, the documentation doesn't say anything about this as being available only for enterprise product.

Does this also means that using the free-version it is impossible to protect ourselves from downtimes of repo.continuum.io servers?

[csoja]

Thank you for the suggestion - we will add a note to our documentation.

We treat any downtime of repo.continuum.io very seriously. However, we do
not provide any free mirroring tools. We do mirror the default channels of
repo.continuum.io to Anaconda Cloud (https://anaconda.org/Anaconda &
https://anaconda.org/R & https://anaconda.org/MRO) - so there is another
path to getting packages from the default channels when repo.continuum.io
is down.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Sorin Sbarnea [email protected]
wrote:

At least you could specify this in the documentation, the documentation
doesn't say anything about this as being available only for enterprise
product.

Does this also means that using the free-version it is impossible to
protect ourselves from downtimes of repo.continuum.io servers?

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