X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README-alpha;h=9ff78cab7144167f9c8e247b2ca97739701e8611;hb=8c0146d2c954c2b63e94695c95f0c7d56cc629ca;hp=bc4e2ba56818ea82531421796e177bf22dc68c91;hpb=7347b4f5d51c15bb19637ea52e9bf7dff832cc52;p=chaz%2Ftar

diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
index bc4e2ba..9ff78ca 100644
--- a/README-alpha
+++ b/README-alpha
@@ -5,20 +5,23 @@ 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 (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.
+to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
+that you have the latest stable version.
 
-autoconf 2.59
-automake 1.8
-bison 1.875
-gettext 0.12.1
-m4 1.4
-wget 1.7
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
+- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
 
-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.
+As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
+suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
 
 Before building the package, run "bootstrap".  It obtains various
 additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
@@ -59,13 +62,13 @@ some other value.
 
 
 
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
 any later version.
 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -75,6 +78,5 @@ 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.