Apply changes that worked in the toy repo

Author: oleksandr-pavlyk

.github/workflows/conda-package.yml

@@ -261,21 +261,24 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
         with:
-          miniforge-variant: Miniforge3
           miniforge-version: latest
+          channels: conda-forge,nodefaults
           activate-environment: ${{ env.TEST_ENV_NAME }}
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
 
+      - name: Remove defaults channel
+        run: conda config --remove channels defaults
+
       - name: Install conda-index
         run: |
-          conda activate
           conda install -n base conda-index
 
       - name: Create conda channel with the artifact bit
         shell: cmd /C CALL {0}
         run: |
           @echo on
           echo ${{ env.workdir }}
+          mkdir ${{ env.workdir }}\channel
           mkdir ${{ env.workdir }}\channel\win-64
           move ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }}-*.tar.bz2 ${{ env.workdir }}\channel\win-64
           dir ${{ env.workdir }}\channel\win-64\
@@ -284,15 +287,20 @@ jobs:
         shell: cmd /C CALL {0}
         run: |
           @echo on
-          conda activate
           conda index ${{ env.workdir }}\channel
 
+      - name: List content of the channels
+        shell: cmd /C CALL {0}
+        run: |
+          dir ${{ env.workdir }}\channel
+          dir ${{ env.workdir }}\channel\win-64
+
       - name: Dump dpctl version info from created channel into ver.json
         shell: cmd /C CALL {0}
         run: |
           @echo on
-          conda activate
           conda search ${{ env.PACKAGE_NAME }} -c ${{ env.workdir }}/channel --override-channels --info --json > ${{ env.workdir }}\ver.json
+          dir ${{ env.workdir }}
 
       - name: Output content of produced ver.json
         shell: pwsh