Dear Fink Users and Developers
Thanks to the help of bbraun and dmacks i just committed a new feature for fink. You can now tell fink to try to download pre-compiled binary packages from the binary distribution if available and if the deb is not already on the system.
To test it check out the 'fink' module from the cvs repository and call './inject.pl' inside the fink folder.
The feature is disabled by default. To enable it you can
a) run 'fink configure' and answer 'yes' at the respective question,
b)
add a line saying 'UseBinaryDist: true' to the '/sw/etc/fink.conf' file, or
c) call fink with the new '--use-binary-dist' or '-b' command line option.
The option influences all fink commands that may possible install a package ('install', 'update-all', 'rebuild' etc.), 'selfupdate', and 'cleanup'. It needs the '--ignore-breakage' option of apt-get added by dmacks in apt >= 0.5.4-41.
Please test it out and tell me what you think! Chris.
(See also patch #1037296 at
<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1037296&group_id=17203&atid=317203>
)
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