[gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update

[Walter Dnes]

I just did an "emerge --sync", and was told to update portage.  But it
seems that portage 3.0.8 built with python 3.7 is blocking portage 3.0.9
with python 3.8.  I obviously can't remove portage to fix the block <G>.
Note "grep -i python /etc/portage/make.conf" shows no output at all.  In
package.use, PYTHON_TARGETS: and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: are commented out.

[i3][root][~] grep -i python /etc/portage/make.conf
[i3][root][~] grep -i python /etc/portage/package.use/package.use
# */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_6 python3_7
# */* PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_6
app-emulation/qemu aio alsa fdt opengl usb vhost-net gtk sdl curl ssh -bluetooth -iscsi -pulseaudio -rbd -smartcard -usbredir -spice -accessibility -caps -debug -glusterfs -filecaps -ncurses  -pin-upstream-blobs -python -sasl -sdl2 -seccomp -selinux -static -static -static-softmmu -static-user -tci -test -tls -vde -virtfs -xattr -xen -xfs
dev-lang/python sqlite
dev-libs/libxml2 python
media-gfx/gimp exif python tiff


Any ideas?  The build attempt follows...


[i3][root][~] emerge --oneshot sys-apps/portage
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] sys-apps/portage-3.0.9 [3.0.8] PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8* -python3_7*" 

!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

sys-apps/portage:0

  (sys-apps/portage-3.0.9:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="(ipc) native-extensions xattr -apidoc -build -doc -gentoo-dev -rsync-verify (-selinux) -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_7 -python3_9" pulled in by
    sys-apps/portage (Argument)

  (sys-apps/portage-3.0.8:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="(ipc) native-extensions xattr -apidoc -build -doc -gentoo-dev -rsync-verify (-selinux) -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_8 -python3_9" pulled in by
    sys-apps/portage[python_targets_pypy3(-)?,python_targets_python3_6(-)?,python_targets_python3_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?,-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-),-python_single_target_python3_9(-)] required by (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_8 -python3_9"

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications