Coming across the new bindist by chance (BTW, great work! My respect to those involved), I wanted to try and use it. Now during years of not using apt-get and a bindist, I all but forgot how to do it. It turns out I am not the only one, though... Fink itself seem to have forgotten.
I added the line deb http://bindist.finkproject.org/10.9 stable main to the sources.list file and changed the config line UseBinaryDist: from false to true. Then I used `fink install` for two or three packages. The result is that Fink correctly downloaded the debs from the bindist server, but then went ahead and compiled them from source anyway, without apologizing in any way. An example output is shown below. Did I forget some additional step necessary to make this work, or has Fink forgotten how to use the bindist? -- Martin Example output: costabel% fink update gnuplot Information about 8157 packages read in 0 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: gnuplot /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q --ignore-breakage --download-only install gnuplot=4.6.4-4 Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. Need to get 3343kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Get:1 http://bindist.finkproject.org stable/main gnuplot 4.6.4-4 [3343kB] Fetched 3343kB in 12s (274kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode Setting runtime build-lock... dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4 /sw/src/fink.build dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4' in `/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4_2013.11.25-13.01.18_darwin-x86_64.deb'. Installing build-lock package... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4_2013.11.25-13.01.18_darwin-x86_64.deb Selecting previously deselected package fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4. (Reading database ... 263568 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4 (from .../fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4_2013.11.25-13.01.18_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... Setting up fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.6.4-4 (2013.11.25-13.01.18) ... sudo -u fink-bld [ENV] sh -c /tmp/fink.SZWdN env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw/bin/tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions -xf /sw/src/gnuplot-4.6.4.tar.gz [and so on, goes ahead and builds and installs gnuplot from source] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users