[Buildroot] Status of "mplayer" in buildroot

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:57:38 +0100
Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:

> Hans-Christian Egtvedt, 20.01.2009:
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:59:47 +0100
> > Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 2) mplayer do not have any recent "versions".
> > >    Instead you are encouraged to checkout the latest svn.
> > > 
> > 
> > It is just plain bad to depend on a random checkout. Perhaps we can
> > use debians/ubuntus "release"?
> > 
> > MPlayer v1.0rc2 + mplayer_1.0~rc2-0ubuntu17.diff.gz ?
> > 
> > When I look more into it, the Ubuntu diff is just adding pulse audio
> > support and various version and other doc changes.
> 
> Or a Gentoo package:
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28288.tar.bz2
> 
> There we don't have to fear distribution specific stuff and exactly
> know the version we use due to the svn revision in the filename.
> 

Great, that sounds a lot better.

My suggestion for my own work flow is to push the AVR32 stuff into
upstream and then grab back a subversion cut from gentoo (or other
"release") which then will incorporate the AVR32 stuff in a more sane
way.

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Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt