Re: fyi, minor doc and dircolors+xz changes

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
>> index f9bf781..3660db5 100644
>> --- a/README-prereq
>> +++ b/README-prereq
>> @@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ getting the prerequisites for particular systems.
>>      # rpmbuild --rebuild 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm
>
> I just noticed that the above is not a persistent URL. Should be:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm

Good catch.

>>      # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
>>    Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11 in step 3.
>> -  Apply the same method to install the lzma package.
>> -  [FIXME: mention xz when it's packaged]
>> +  Apply the same method to build and install "xz".
>
> Which package is `xz` in?

None yet, afaik.  Maybe everyone is waiting for its 5.0 release.
You have to use the clone-from-git method,
so I suppose that sentence belongs after #3.