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

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

[John Blinka]

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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

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

[Alexey Mishustin]

чт, 16 апр. 2020 г. в 20:27, John Blinka <john.blinka@gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> [snip]
>
> Any ideas about what’s happening?

Aren't /usr/local/portage and /usr/local/portage/steam-overlay really
intertwined? What if you move the 'local' overlay to, say,
/usr/local/portage/local ? (And, sure, edit the corresponding info in
the configuration files).

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Regards,
Alex

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

[John Blinka]

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:36 PM Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@shumkar.ru> wrote:

>
> Aren't /usr/local/portage and /usr/local/portage/steam-overlay really
> intertwined? What if you move the 'local' overlay to, say,
> /usr/local/portage/local ? (And, sure, edit the corresponding info in
> the configuration files).
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> Thanks, Alex, your suggestion worked.  And better than that, helped me
understand how I broke my 3rd installation by misreading and misapplying
the steam overlay installation guide.  It’s a mystery to me why my
misintallation ever worked on the first 2 boxes, but I’ll leave it
unexplored.

John

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