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diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
index c660ca7..12f6678 100644
--- a/README-alpha
+++ b/README-alpha
@@ -3,46 +3,63 @@ This is GNU tar.
 This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
 Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
 
-If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following packages
-to build GNU tar:
-
-autoconf 2.57
-automake 1.7.5
+If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
+packages (or later) to build GNU tar.  We don't make any extra effort
+to accommodate older versions of these packages.  If we discover that
+newer versions are needed to bootstrap, we'll update the version
+numbers in this list.
+
+autoconf 2.59
+automake 1.8
 bison 1.875
 gettext 0.12.1
-sed 3.0
+m4 1.4
 wget 1.7
 
-Before building the package, run bootstrap. You will need a POSIX
-compliant shell to do so. The bootstrap utility obtains various
-additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
-site and prepares the source directory for building. The exact way
-of invoking bootstrap depends on whether you have the sources for gnulib
-installed somewhere on your system and on the method you use to access
-the CVS at savannah.
-
-If you already have gnulib sources on your machine, run:
+For GNU m4 1.4, we recommend also installing the `translit' patch; see
+Debian bug 211477 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211477>.
+This patch is bundled into Debian m4 1.4-17 or later.
 
-	./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME
+Before building the package, run "bootstrap".  It obtains various
+additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
+site and prepares the source directory for building.
 
-Otherwise, if you have developer's access to savannah:
+When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
+paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
+using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
+page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
+process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
+Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
 
-a) if you access CVS via ssh, set the environment variable CVS_RSH
-to ssh and run ./bootstrap without arguments.
+ --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME      Specify the local directory where gnulib
+                              sources reside. Use this if you already
+                              have gnulib sources on your machine, and
+                              do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+                              them again.
 
-b) if you access CVS via Kerberos, run
+ --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME    Specify the local directory where paxutils
+                              sources reside. Use this if you already
+                              have paxutils sources on your machine, and
+                              do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+                              them again.
 
-        ./bootstrap --cvs-auth=gserver
+ --cvs-auth=METHOD            Set the CVS access method used for downloading
+                              gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
+                              accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
+                              repository).
 
-Othervise, if you are not a member of Savannah, run
+ --cvs-user=USERNAME          Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
+                              the gnulib repository.
 
-        ./bootstrap --cvs-auth=pserver
+ --no-po                      Do not download po files.
 
-When prompted for a password for anoncvs, simply press the Enter key. 
+Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
+will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
+some other value.
 
 
 
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
@@ -58,6 +75,6 @@ GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.