diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.mkd b/doc/developer-notes.mkd
index 408ac40..4807cfb 100644
--- a/doc/developer-notes.mkd
+++ b/doc/developer-notes.mkd
@@ -127,6 +127,17 @@ longer is `$HOME` of the 'git' user**.  They keep it in
 already be present in `/etc/gitolite/gitolite.rc` before doing any such
 installs.
 
+There are also some other "impedance mismatches" that may show up.  For
+example, the gl-setup triggered by detecting a change in `$data_version`
+following an RPM update once caused problems.  This auto-update is designed to
+run on the next "hit" of any kind (which arguably makes things very easy in
+normal installations), but in Fedora's case it also means it runs *as that
+user*.  Who may not have "write" access to `$GL_ADMINDIR`!  So the compile
+fails, and you now have new code trying to work with old format data.
+
+The solution is to explicitly run a compile, from a properly privileged
+userid, as soon as you do an RPM upgrade.
+
 ----
 
 # **Why v2?**
diff --git a/doc/gitolite.rc.mkd b/doc/gitolite.rc.mkd
index 36a8479..f42e9d7 100644
--- a/doc/gitolite.rc.mkd
+++ b/doc/gitolite.rc.mkd
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ things happen if you change them.
     blocks repo config settings.  Please read [doc/big-config.mkd][bc] for
     more details.
 
+    **WARNING**: if your description files are maintained by some other means
+    than via the gitolite config file, make sure you set this variable to 1.
+
   * `$GL_NICE_VALUE`, boolean, default undef
 
     The nice value to run under.  Applicable only if it is greater than 0.
diff --git a/src/gl-dryrun b/src/gl-dryrun
index 286c27e..2ebd198 100755
--- a/src/gl-dryrun
+++ b/src/gl-dryrun
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ $GL_ADMINDIR=$ENV{PWD} . "/.gitolite";
 $GL_CONF="$GL_ADMINDIR/conf/gitolite.conf";
 $GL_KEYDIR="$GL_ADMINDIR/keydir";
 $GL_CONF_COMPILED="$GL_ADMINDIR/conf/gitolite.conf-compiled.pm";
-$GL_WILDREPOS = 0;
+$GL_WILDREPOS = 1;
 $PROJECTS_LIST = $ENV{PWD} . "/projects.list";
 $REPO_UMASK = 0077;
 $GL_BIG_CONFIG = 0;
@@ -116,3 +116,4 @@ done | perl -ane '
 cd ..
 echo
 
+echo ...done
diff --git a/src/gl-mirror-shell b/src/gl-mirror-shell
index 6a0dfde..f326e18 100755
--- a/src/gl-mirror-shell
+++ b/src/gl-mirror-shell
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ use warnings;
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # this section of code snarfed from gl-auth-command
-# XXX add this program to 'that bindir thing' in doc/developer-notes.mkd
 BEGIN {
     $0 =~ m|^(/)?(.*)/| and $ENV{GL_BINDIR} = ($1 || "$ENV{PWD}/") . $2;
 }
diff --git a/src/sshkeys-lint b/src/sshkeys-lint
index a149063..5e6d9a8 100755
--- a/src/sshkeys-lint
+++ b/src/sshkeys-lint
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ for my $pub (@pubkeys) {
 
 print <<INFO;
 
+====
+
 Git operations using a pubkey that gets you a command line will BYPASS
 gitolite completely.  This means: