Maybe this works...

Author: micknudsen

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -31,30 +31,22 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install conda-build
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          conda install -n itdiscover-build -y -c conda-forge conda-build
+          conda install -n base -y -c conda-forge conda-build
 
       - name: Build package
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          mkdir -p dist
-          conda-build conda-recipe/ --output-folder dist
-          find dist -maxdepth 3 -type f | sort
+          conda build conda-recipe/
 
       - name: Locate built package
         id: locate
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          PKG_PATH="$(conda-build conda-recipe/ --output)"
+          PKG_PATH="$(conda build conda-recipe/ --output)"
           if [ -z "$PKG_PATH" ]; then
-            echo "No conda package path reported by conda-build"
+            echo "No conda package path reported by conda build"
             exit 1
           fi
-          if [ ! -f "$PKG_PATH" ]; then
-            ALT_PATH="$(find dist -type f \( -name "*.conda" -o -name "*.tar.bz2" \) | head -n 1)"
-            if [ -n "$ALT_PATH" ]; then
-              PKG_PATH="$ALT_PATH"
-            fi
-          fi
           if [ ! -f "$PKG_PATH" ]; then
             echo "Reported package path does not exist: $PKG_PATH"
             exit 1
@@ -64,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Smoke test built package
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          conda-build --test "${{ steps.locate.outputs.pkg_path }}"
+          conda build --test "${{ steps.locate.outputs.pkg_path }}"
 
       - name: Upload conda artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4

conda-recipe/meta.yaml

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ source:
 build:
   number: 0
   noarch: python
+  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . --no-deps --ignore-installed -vv
 
 requirements:
   host: