Question: I honestly can't figure out what is happening with this error. I thought it was something in my manifest file but apparently it's not. Note, this directory is in my Google Drive. Here is my MANIFEST.in file: graft soothsayer_utils include setup.py include LICENSE.txt include README.md global-exclude Icon* global-exclude *.py[co] global-exclude .DS_Store  I'm running conda build . in the directory and get the following error: Packaging soothsayer_utils INFO:conda_build.build:Packaging soothsayer_utils INFO conda_build.build:build(2214): Packaging soothsayer_utils Packaging soothsayer_utils-2022.01.19-py_0 INFO:conda_build.build:Packaging soothsayer_utils-2022.01.19-py_0 INFO conda_build.build:bundle_conda(1454): Packaging soothsayer_utils-2022.01.19-py_0 number of files: 11 Fixing permissions Packaged license file/s. INFO :: Time taken to mark (prefix) 0 replacements in 0 files was 0.11 seconds 'site-packages/soothsayer_utils-2022.1.19.dist-info/Icon' not in tarball 'site-packages/soothsayer_utils-2022.1.19.dist-info/Icon\r' not in info/files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/bin/conda-build", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/cli/main_build.py", line 474, in main execute(sys.argv[1:]) File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/cli/main_build.py", line 463, in execute outputs = api.build(args.recipe, post=args.post, test_run_post=args.test_run_post, File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/api.py", line 186, in build return build_tree( File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/build.py", line 3008, in build_tree packages_from_this = build(metadata, stats, File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/build.py", line 2291, in build newly_built_packages = bundlers[pkg_type](output_d, m, env, stats) File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/build.py", line 1619, in bundle_conda tarcheck.check_all(tmp_path, metadata.config) File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/tarcheck.py", line 89, in check_all x.info_files() File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/tarcheck.py", line 53, in info_files raise Exception('info/files') Exception: info/files  Here's the complete log I can confirm that the Icon files do not exist in my soothsayer_utils-2022.1.19.tar.gz file: (base) jespinoz@x86_64-apple-darwin13 Downloads % tree soothsayer_utils-2022.1.19 soothsayer_utils-2022.1.19 ├── LICENSE.txt ├── MANIFEST.in ├── PKG-INFO ├── README.md ├── setup.cfg ├── setup.py ├── soothsayer_utils │ ├── __init__.py │ └── soothsayer_utils.py └── soothsayer_utils.egg-info ├── PKG-INFO ├── SOURCES.txt ├── dependency_links.txt ├── requires.txt └── top_level.txt 2 directories, 13 files  Can someone help me get conda build to work for my package?

Answer: there are a few symptoms I would like to suggest looking into:  There is a WARNING in your error log SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools. You have MANIFEST.in, setup.py and setup.cfg probably conflicting between them. Because setup.py is the build script for setuptools. It tells setuptools about your package (such as the name and version) as well as which code files to include. Also, An existing generated MANIFEST will be regenerated without sdist comparing its modification time to the one of MANIFEST.in or setup.py, as explained here.   Please refer to Building and Distributing Packages with Setuptools, also Configuring setup() using setup.cfg files and Quickstart for more information   Maybe not so important, but another thing worth looking into is the fact that there are 2 different python distributions being used at different stages, as Python 3.10 is used at: Using pip 22.0.2 from $PREFIX/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10) (it is also in your conda dependencies) and Python 3.8 is used at: File "/Users/jespinoz/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/conda_build/tarcheck.py", line 53, in info_files raise Exception('info/files') which is where the error happens. So maybe another configuration conflict related to this.