no-arch optionpipbuild builds the package by pip installing it and then collecting the binary. One very good thing that I see with pipbuild is that I can specify the pip url, so can I use the local pypi mirror I created a few weeks ago and complete the task pretty fast. The problem is I don't see any option to specify noarch in pipbuild. That should work for now. If it works well I try to remove the lock and parallyze the pipbuild so that the process can be completed really fast.
If the package is present in the build directory conda-build exists without message, which left me wondering if it was really successful or not. [FIX IT]
I added a little code to the little build_from_pypi.py script to build failed pacakges using pipbuild but I don't wanna add another column to the existing table, so instead of True in build column I wrotePIPBUILD PASS. It is pretty dirty now, probably I should log pipbuilds in a seperate file instead of {package_name}_build.log. Another problem is that it kinda fails if the package already exists in build directory, which is good thing in the sense that we don't need to do anything anymore but I gotta handle it better.
Tried out pipbuild approach and it working correctly for most of the packages, my current approach is to first try to build the pacakage using skeleton and build but if it fails I'm trying the pipbuild process.