[Fink-announce] IMPORTANT - Fink binary distribution moves

[Max H. <fin...@ma...>]

Dear Fink users,


In the past, the whole binary distribution for Fink (the one you 
might or might not be using and which is accessed via the dselect / 
apt-get tools) has been hosted on the SourceForge.net web servers 
that also hosts the Fink homepage.

However, this is less than ideal, since it generates lots of traffic 
on the web servers.  Since the web servers are rate limited (after 
all, they have to serve other projects besides Fink), this means that 
download speeds are not as fast as one could wish.

On the other hand, SourceForge.net offers a dedicated download server 
network which has mirrors in the US and Europe. Since it is 
specifically designed for this task, it offers superior download 
speeds.

Therefore, it was decided that the binary distibution is to be hosted 
on these dedicated file download servers, as it will take away load 
from the web servers, while at the same time the download experience 
for you, our users, is improved.


To this end, the whole binary distribution is already available in 
the new location. Everybody using "fink selfupdate-cvs" most probably 
already is using this new binary distribution. For anybody else, we 
provide instructions on how to switch here: 
<http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/bindist_move.php>


We suggest that you switch as soon as possible. The old binary distro 
will be removed on Monday, July 22nd. Don't worry though, switching 
to the new binary distro will still be possible later on without 
problems.

In case you have any questions regarding this switch, feel free to 
ask on one of our mailing lists:
   fink-users <mailto:fin...@li...>
   fink-beginners <mailto:fin...@li...>


Cheers,

Max Horn
Fink project lead