Re: fyi, minor doc and dircolors+xz changes

[Pádraig Brady]

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

Also Fedora 11 broke backwards compat with rpm format with previous distros,

>>      # 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?

I always try to use the system packages if possible,
but I'm wondering now whether it would be better to
expand on method 3 for all prerequisites?

cheers,
Pádraig.