The output below is printed when attempting to build realplayer-8-r7.ebuild * Please go to http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html * and download the appropriate realplayer binary installer * for OS type : Linux 2.x (libc6 i386) * * Download rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin and place it in : * /usr/portage/distfiles * The URL http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html get redirected to http://www.real.com/linux/ where you can only download realplayer10 The URL for old versions of realplayer is http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit $(PORTDIR)/profiles/package.mask to unmask media-video/realplayer 2. emerge =media-video/realplayer-8-r7 3. Just a new URL to update the ebuild with that's all.
Realplayer-8 is hard masked for unresolved security reasons (Bug 40469). Don't use it!