[bug#28198] [PATCH] Add MongoDB package and service.

[Christopher Baines]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:33:07 +0200
Roel Janssen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Christopher Baines writes:
> 
> > This is a work in progress issue for supporting MongoDB in Guix.
> >
> > Back in March 2016, Roel Janssen sent a working package patch to
> > guix-devel, but there was concern from those reviewing about the
> > security implications of the amount of third party code that is
> > included with the MongoDB source.
> >
> > I've taken that original patch, and started to try and get MongoDB
> > to build using libraries and tools from Guix. In addition, I've
> > added a very basic service definition and system test.
> >
> > This isn't ready to be merged yet, but I think it's good to work on
> > in public. Patches to follow...  
> 
> Hello Chris,
> 
> Sorry for the late reaction and thanks for picking this up.  I haven't
> built mongodb with your patches, but I hope to find the time for this
> at some point next week.
> 
> I believe I ran into a licensing issue with mongodb's third party
> stuff. I cannot find the problematic library so quickly, but we
> should verify the licenses of each library in the "third_party"
> folder: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/tree/master/src/third_party
> 
> So, at least the list of licenses for the mongodb package should be
> made complete.

Sounds good. Note that I don't think we need to check all the
libraries, as we can hopefully remove the libraries where a
--use-system-... flag is present, which is 5 of them at the moment.

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