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
