mongodb-2.2.2_0 binaries for ML 10.8 missing from MacPorts

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Dec 10 02:11:06 PST 2012


On Dec 10, 2012, at 03:08, Joshua Root wrote:

> Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this intentional or are the binaries eventually going to be added to MacPorts?
>> 
>> We cannot distribute a binary for mongodb because it has a dependency on openssl, and their licenses conflict.
>> 
>>    % cd ~/Projects/MacPorts/trunk/base/portmgr/jobs
>>    % ./port_binary_distributable.tcl -v mongodb
>>    dependency 'openssl' has license 'OpenSSL' which conflicts with license 'agpl' from 'mongodb'
>> 
>> Admittedly, it's only a build dependency (mongodb -> scons -> python27 -> openssl). Don't know if that makes a difference.
> 
> Needs "license_noconflict scons".


Done: r100382.
The reason why we don't automatically remove build dependencies from license consideration is that some ports might use static libraries from a build dependency, right?



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