Ahh good point. I had full intentions of creating a separate SlackBuilds for those tools and completely forgot. I was thinking of keeping them separate as it'll make getting the sources easier - no need for repackaging the vanilla sources.
Thoughts? On May 6, 2015 6:19 AM, "Christoph Willing" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 04/14/2015 04:22 PM, Miguel De Anda wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> i've modified the mongodb build script to actually build mongo from >> source instead of just repackaging the binaries. if i can get a couple >> of confirmed builds i'll submit the update. >> >> > Firstly, its great to see Miguel's effort to change a SlackBuild from > simply repackaging someone else's work to building it ourselves. > Repackaging always looks like we're not able to build it ourselves, or > couldn't be bothered ("slack" in the worst meaning of the word). > > After the last lot of updates which included the new "build from source" > SlackBuild for mongodb, I ran the script but found that the contents of the > new package's /usr/bin directory contained only some of the binaries that > exist in the repackaged version i.e. > mongo > mongod > mongoperf > mongos > mongosniff > > compared with: > mongostat > mongod > mongofiles > mongorestore > mongo > mongoperf > bsondump > mongooplog > mongos > mongodump > mongotop > mongoimport > mongoexport > > After unsuccessfully trying various scons incantations in an attempt to > produce the missing binaries, I eventually read the documentation. It > seems, according to docs/building.md, that the "missing" pieces are now > kept separately at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-tools > > The question then is whether a separate mongo-tools SlackBuild should be > made for them or whether building them could be added into the existing > SlackBuild (since this is how the mongo people are preparing their own > release packages - the ones we used to repackage)? > > chris > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > >
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