diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix
index d307915d2f50..90e229d54acb 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/mongodb/default.nix
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # bug #482576
     sed -i -e "/-Werror/d" src/third_party/v8/SConscript
 
+    # fix inclusion of std::swap
+    sed -i '1i #include <algorithm>' src/mongo/shell/linenoise_utf8.h
+
     # fix environment variable reading
     substituteInPlace SConstruct \
         --replace "Environment( BUILD_DIR" "Environment( ENV = os.environ, BUILD_DIR"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index db97fb7126d2..71d4ca4d5231 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8153,7 +8153,6 @@ let
   mariadb = callPackage ../servers/sql/mariadb {};
 
   mongodb = callPackage ../servers/nosql/mongodb {
-    boost = boost156;
     sasl = cyrus_sasl;
   };