Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update

[Arve Barsnes]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 10:07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>   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.

It's a dependency problem that I find that it is not worth to
untangle. I had the exact same problem yesterday on a different
machine.

My advice: skip this and go straight to world update. portage will
most likely figure out the tangle for you, and update itself during
the world update.

Regards,
Arve