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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
