[gentoo-user] !!! section ‘local’ in repos.conf has name different from ...

[John Blinka]

Hi, everyone,

I’m trying to install steam-overlay using https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam

I have 3 boxes on which I try to maintain gentoo setups as identical as
possible.  The steam install has gone smoothly on 2 boxes, but is failing
on the 3rd.

When I get to this steam installation step on the 3rd box:
# emaint sync —repo steam-overlay

I get the error
!!! Section ‘local’ in repos.conf has name different from repository
‘steam-overlay’ set inside repository
which prevents me from syncing and installing steam on this machine.

I’m interpreting this as the two repositories (local and steam-overlay)
somehow knowing about each other and somehow getting their configurations
intertwined.

My repos.conf directory on this 3rd machine is identical to the other 2
machines (which don’t exhibit this error).

.../repos.conf/local.conf maintains a local overlay in /usr/local/portage
for a handful of personal packages/ebuilds.

 .../repos.conf/steam-overlay.conf maintains its overlay in
/usr/local/portage/steam-overlay.

Neither of these two files contain the other overlay’s name, i.e.,
local.conf doesn’t refer to steam-overlay nor does steam-overlay.conf refer
to local. The two files point to different storage locations for their
respective repositories.

So I don’t understand how these two repositories know of each other’s
existence.  Or maybe I don’t understand the error message.

Google doesn’t report many instances of this error, and following up with
them hasn’t produced a solution.

Any ideas about what’s happening?

Thanks,

John