[MPlayer-users] how to upadate cvs

[Stephen Stocker]

The Wanderer wrote:

>
>Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
>
>> i am sorry if this is a noob question but please tell me the mplayer
>> website says that
>>
>> In order to include libavcodec and libavutil in CVS updates, add the
>> following lines to main/CVS/Entries:
>>
>>   D/libavcodec////
>>   D/libavformat////
>>   D/libavutil////
>>
>> does this mean that i can update the libavcodec, libavformat, and
>> libavutlis at the same time as updating mplayer cvs using tis command
>> .
>>
>> cvs -z3 update -dPA
>
>Yes, that's what it means.
>
>> if so then how can i do this. it says something about adding these
>> lines to main/CVS/Entries. i can't understand ths.
>>
>> please tell me what to do.
>
>I'm not sure what it is you don't understand here. Do you not understand
>how to edit the file? Do you not understand how to *find* the file? Do
>you not even realize that "main/CVS/Entries" *is* a file? Or is it
>something else?
>
>I really thought that the explanation given (in fact, even the
>explanation you've given in your own question) was foolproof enough...
>
>--

  I'm glad someone brought this up. I understand it, but I've never been
  able to make it work! After main/vidix/drivers, CVS just sits there
  forever, unless I abort it. 

  I'm including the above lines, using CVS v1.12.9, with the CVSROOT
  variable set to :pserver:anonymous at mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer, and
  default options of "cvs -z3" and "update -dPA" in .cvsrc.

  I'm reasonably sure I'm overlooking something simple. I never got around
  to asking here, because it seems rather trivial. Still, it'd save some
  effort to get the whole thing at once, instead of getting ffmpeg updates
  separately and then copying those three directories into main.

  I'm just using the cmd "cvs up main" or "cvs up" if I'm in the main
  directory. Anybody have an idea?

  Maybe somebody can solve this for both of us. TIA!

  Take care,
  Steve