From: pk@pk.invalid   
      
   jef wrote:   
      
   > Le Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:56:50 +0100, pk a écrit :   
   >   
   >> There may be, however, another path, but this requires that you have   
   >> another working (and preferably up-to-date) gentoo system. If that is   
   >> the case, you can issue the following command on that system:   
   >>   
   >> # quickpkg linux-headers gcc glibc portage   
   >>   
   > What if I try this on my system ? It can't be worse, anyway ;)   
      
   No, but the whole point of quickpg is creating a tarball of a working   
   package, taken from a working system. If you did that on your same system,   
   you would end up creating tarballs of broken packages, and reinstalling   
   them would be useless, as that would just recreate your (broken)   
   environment.   
      
   > You've done a lot, and I won't blame you for my mistakes . After the   
   > first, I should have asked for help, but I think I got it worse, trying   
   > to repair by myself .   
   > If nothing works, I'll try to reinstall from stage3 .   
      
   Just another note. You said you want to keep some settings for some   
   applications. My advice in case you reinstall, is to backup your whole home   
   directory (if it's not already on a dedicated partition) and the   
   whole /etc. I don't know VDR and where it stores its configuration, but I   
   guess it's either somewhere in /etc or somewhere in your home directory   
   (for instance in ~/.vdr or something like that). After the reinstall,   
   reemerge VDR and then restore your home directory and the relevant files   
   from /etc (which should be apparent by their names), and see whether things   
   work like before (they should).   
      
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