[Pkg-mongodb-maintainers] [pkg-mongodb] 33/394: Describe why is mongodb available for some architectures only (Closes: #570076)

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

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Author: Antonin Kral <a.kral at bobek.cz>
Date:   Tue Feb 16 21:51:07 2010 +0100

    Describe why is mongodb available for some architectures only (Closes: #570076)
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 debian/README.Debian | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index dc25df5..2d2b506 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -7,4 +7,11 @@ Binds only to localhost
   default. You can change this behavior in /etc/mongodb.conf by
   editing/removing/commenting out bind_ip line.
 
+Why only for x86 and amd64?
+
+  The mongodb server depends on both little-endianness and unaligned memory
+  access, which I believe means it can only work on i386 and amd64. We believe
+  that the mongodb will be useful even it is not available for all Debian
+  supported platforms.
+
 -- Antonin Kral <A.Kral at sh.cvut.cz>, Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:19, +0100

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