An account at gnu.org is no longer needed for the common files,

they're available for anonymous CVS

diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
index 3f8a4e090aee01198364d0bed3d0b467ca76a154..d423555981ce8443d3b2a702032ad97a9610e667 100644 (file)
--- a/README-alpha
+++ b/README-alpha
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ libtool mailing list, <bug-libtool@gnu.org>.
 = Release procedure
 
 * Fetch new versions of the files that are maintained by the FSF.
-  Unfortunately you need an FSF account to do this.
+  The most important ones are available for anonymous CVS in the
+  `common' directory, sibling of the libtool CVS tree:
+  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/anoncvsroot checkout common
 
 * Update NEWS.