Temporarily drop xgboost from CI (#7526)

Dropping xgboost from our CI for now while upstream builds are fixed.

Stopgap for #7520. Supersedes #7523.

Authors:
  - Jim Crist-Harif (https://github.com/jcrist)

Approvers:
  - https://github.com/jakirkham

URL: #7526

Author: jcrist

ci/test_notebooks.sh

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ rapids-logger "notebook tests cuml"
 
 # Add notebooks that should be skipped here
 # (space-separated list of filenames without paths)
-SKIPNBS="cuml_benchmarks.ipynb hdbscan_soft_clustering_benchmark.ipynb"
+SKIPNBS="cuml_benchmarks.ipynb hdbscan_soft_clustering_benchmark.ipynb forest_inference_demo.ipynb target_encoder_walkthrough.ipynb"
 NBTEST="$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")/utils/nbtest.sh")"
 
 cd notebooks

conda/environments/all_cuda-129_arch-aarch64.yaml

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ dependencies:
 - rapids-build-backend>=0.4.0,<0.5.0.dev0
 - rapids-dask-dependency==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - rapids-logger==0.2.*,>=0.0.0a0
-- rapids-xgboost==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - recommonmark
 - rich
 - rmm==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0

conda/environments/all_cuda-129_arch-x86_64.yaml

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ dependencies:
 - rapids-build-backend>=0.4.0,<0.5.0.dev0
 - rapids-dask-dependency==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - rapids-logger==0.2.*,>=0.0.0a0
-- rapids-xgboost==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - recommonmark
 - rich
 - rmm==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0

conda/environments/all_cuda-130_arch-aarch64.yaml

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ dependencies:
 - rapids-build-backend>=0.4.0,<0.5.0.dev0
 - rapids-dask-dependency==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - rapids-logger==0.2.*,>=0.0.0a0
-- rapids-xgboost==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - recommonmark
 - rich
 - rmm==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0

conda/environments/all_cuda-130_arch-x86_64.yaml

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ dependencies:
 - rapids-build-backend>=0.4.0,<0.5.0.dev0
 - rapids-dask-dependency==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - rapids-logger==0.2.*,>=0.0.0a0
-- rapids-xgboost==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
 - recommonmark
 - rich
 - rmm==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0

dependencies.yaml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ files:
       - rapids_build_backend
       - test_python
       - test_python_dask
-      - test_python_xgboost
+      # - test_python_xgboost
   devcontainers:
     output: none
     includes:
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ files:
       - depends_on_libcuml
       - py_version
       - test_python
-      - test_python_xgboost
+      # - test_python_xgboost
   test_python_dask:
     output: none
     includes:
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ files:
       - depends_on_libcuml
       - py_version
       - test_python
-      - test_python_xgboost
+      # - test_python_xgboost
       - test_python_dask
       - depends_on_rapids_dask_dependency
       - depends_on_dask_cudf
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ files:
       key: test
     includes:
       - test_python
-      - test_python_xgboost
+      # - test_python_xgboost
   py_dask_cuml:
     output: pyproject
     pyproject_dir: python/cuml
@@ -498,18 +498,18 @@ dependencies:
       - output_types: [conda, requirements, pyproject]
         packages:
           - dask-ml
-  test_python_xgboost:
-    common:
-      - output_types: [conda]
-        packages:
-          # We must separate xgboost into its own list so that it is not
-          # included in the "devcontainers" key. The libxgboost package depends
-          # on librmm but we do not want to have a package depending on librmm
-          # in devcontainers since it should be built from source.
-          - &rapids-xgboost rapids-xgboost==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
-      - output_types: [requirements, pyproject]
-        packages:
-          - &xgboost xgboost>=2.1.0
+  #test_python_xgboost:
+    #common:
+      #- output_types: [conda]
+        #packages:
+          ## We must separate xgboost into its own list so that it is not
+          ## included in the "devcontainers" key. The libxgboost package depends
+          ## on librmm but we do not want to have a package depending on librmm
+          ## in devcontainers since it should be built from source.
+          #- &rapids-xgboost rapids-xgboost==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
+      #- output_types: [requirements, pyproject]
+        #packages:
+          #- &xgboost xgboost>=2.1.0
   test_notebooks:
     common:
       - output_types: [conda, requirements]
@@ -523,11 +523,11 @@ dependencies:
       - output_types: conda
         packages:
           - matplotlib-base
-          - *rapids-xgboost
+          # - *rapids-xgboost
       - output_types: requirements
         packages:
           - matplotlib
-          - *xgboost
+          # - *xgboost
   depends_on_cuda_python:
     specific:
       - output_types: [conda, requirements, pyproject]

python/cuml/pyproject.toml

@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ test = [
     "statsmodels",
     "tenacity",
     "umap-learn==0.5.7",
-    "xgboost>=2.1.0",
 ] # This list was generated by `rapids-dependency-file-generator`. To make changes, edit ../../dependencies.yaml and run `rapids-dependency-file-generator`.
 dask = [
     "dask-cudf==25.12.*,>=0.0.0a0",