[bug#28198] [PATCH] gnu: Add mongodb.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:30:06 +0100
> Christopher Baines <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The patches I've sent to #28198 also include a very basic service and
>> system test. The system test currently fails, as the mongo client
>> attempts to determine a "distroName", and fails. I haven't worked out
>> what to do about this yet...
>
> I started a thread about the issue with the mongo client failing on the
> mongodb-user mailing list [1], and I've now also got around to creating
> a ticket on the MongoDB issue tracker about it [2].
>
> 1: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mongodb-user/jmv1dzc0Kp4/ixvXwyVIBgAJ
> 2: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-31105

Given that it’s purely for statistics, IIUC the thread above, I think
the client should have an option to *not* send that information (and it
should be opt-in IMO.)

In the meantime we could patch the code to have a hard-coded
“distroName”.

Ludo’.