Daniel E. Macks wrote: []
Unless you specify an explicit version on the command-line, fink always picks the highest known version. That would be foobar-1.1 in your example; since it's not available in binary, the -b flag would have no effect.
If used only with the official fink binary distribution, the -b flag is indeed of rather limited usefulness. A few weeks after a bindist comes out, many packages even in the stable tree will have higher versions than what is in the bindist. In a situation like now where the bindist is half a year old, this will be true for most packages (I haven't counted, but for the packages I am interested in, this is so).
The real interest of this option appears in the situation where you have your own Fink build server for a local network, either with the stable or the unstable tree, so that the binary distribution on that server can be kept up-to-date. The other machines can then put this server in their /sw/etc/apt/sources.list and use fink -b (or could anyway, if it worked correctly).
-- Martin
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