How to add local tar.gz package in conda meta.yaml requierement?

Question

I have a meta.yaml recipe for conda, to build a package. (we will call it mypackage)

I want this package to use a local (tar.bz2) file in his requirement section (build&run) (we will call it locapackagedep)

Here is an example of what I would like to do

requirements:
  build:
   - setuptools
   - wheel
   - nodejs=16
   - yarn
   - jupyterlab
   - /my/path/to/locapackagedep
   - ipympl
 host:
   - python {{ python }}
 run:
   - python=3.8
   - jupyterlab
   - locapackagedep

I can't find any doc on it ....

Answer 1

I believe one needs to specify the package by name, and use the -c flag to indicate a local path that contains the build.

Something like:

requirements:
  build:
   - setuptools
   - wheel
   - nodejs=16
   - yarn
   - jupyterlab
   - locapackagedep
   - ipympl
 host:
   - python {{ python }}
 run:
   - python=3.8
   - jupyterlab
   - locapackagedep

and

conda build -c file://my/path/to .