Mongo packaging

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 2013-01-15 15:49, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Julian Edwards 
> <julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that currently the version of Mongo required sits as a 
>> compiled binary in a public location downloaded over http.
> 
> There's actually no reason not to use https, even though at this
> point this wouldn't offer a whole lot since the full interaction
> happens within Amazon's network. What we should really do in the
> medium term, though, is to sign all those files in the public
> bucket.
> 

I think he's actually talking about the "you need to install mongod
onto your development machine in order to run juju tests". Which does
(currently) require getting a binary from amazon (or using Julian's PPA).

John
=:->

>> Can I suggest that you copy this to the juju PPA and make it a 
>> dependency.  If you want, it's trivial to stop it running as a
>> service by doing this:
> 
> It's not clear what the suggestion actually is. We don't need
> mongodb on the client side of juju, and the server side doesn't
> download juju or MongoDB from a PPA.
> 
> Please also note that when doing any changes to that scheme, we
> must have in mind the full spectrum of use cases we're working on 
> (non-Ubuntu, for example).
> 
> 
> gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
> 

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