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]


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