[EPEL-devel] Mongodb plans for EPEL

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> mongodb 2.6 brought alot of changes to it's libraries and packaging.  I
> believe the 2.6 databases are backward compatible with the 2.4
> databases, but the libraries and structures have gone through some changes.
>
> If you look at the mongodb 2.6 in rawhide (f22) you will notice that
> there is no libmongodb.  All of that has been split off into a separate
> package called mongo-cxx-driver.
>
> What am I proposing for EPEL6 and EPEL7?
>
> I propose we keep mongodb on EPEL6 at 2.4 for as long as possible.  I
> have just updated it to 2.4.12 (from 2.4.6).
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mongodb-2.4.12-1.el6
>
> I am also proposing that we move EPEL7 to mongodb 2.6.x now, instead of
> later.  That will give people a clean way to migrate from mongodb 2.4 to
> 2.6.  They will just need to migrate from RHEL6 to RHEL7.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mongodb-2.6.5-2.el7
>
> Any thoughts, complaints, problems?
> If there aren't any, I'll let these take their normal 2 weeks in bohdi
> and then move them into EPEL.

+1 - I think sticking with 2.4.x for as long as possible is likely the
best course of action given that users tend to expect a certain level
of stability from EPEL (for various definitions/contexts of the term).

-AdamM

>
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
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