Does juju work with a JavaScript-less mongodb?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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We currently use 'mongoexport' at one point, but we want to switch to
using 'mongo'. AIUI the main motivation is because 'mongo' doesn't
bundle v8 and 'mongoexport' does. (Which makes mongoexport about 2x
the size of a 'mongo' binary.)

John
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On 2013-12-09 6:05, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> David Cheney <david.cheney at canonical.com> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle < 
>> michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> As some people know, I've been looking at getting Juju running
>>> on 64-bit ARM systems.  With some patching, I can cross-build
>>> juju using gccgo and the resulting bits seem to work.  But
>>> there is no mongodb for 64-bit ARM, because there is no port of
>>> the v8 JavaScript engine for 64-bit ARM.  It is possible to
>>> build mongodb without JavaScript support however, and so the
>>> thought occurred: does juju actually require JavaScript support
>>> in its mongodb?  Grepping suggests that it will be OK (a few
>>> tests will break).  I can and will "just try it", but building 
>>> mongo takes a while so I thought I'd ask here :)
>>> 
>>> One of the things you don't have without JavaScript is the
>>> mongo shell, which certainly makes things more awkward -- but
>>> not a complete show stopper I think...
>>> 
>> 
>> Does this also disable the backup/restore stuff that we need for
>> well, backup and restore.
> 
> I don't think so.  I'll let you know :)
> 
> Cheers, mwh
> 

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