diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
index e17cbd33ec..fd4c68d97f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-DIST packaging-24.2.tar.gz 163950 BLAKE2B 8610f22a05a71a38bafe5e7ae12c549a4395f751585ab2056eb5ca1c76db3d4bc9dc452eafac4209a87e8ef54577c35529873fa25b8a43b454164298c203aae7 SHA512 4d79d9c49c59255e9eb12cb1452ff9ee413a6a6f34a23c487d3d5712ddabe067f8c6dafe0c8111517682634deac2fd5db1346e3c0cc9f432eba94491aa459553
 DIST packaging-25.0.tar.gz 165727 BLAKE2B ad665526339ccc63bbca1e21649f773e626b13f984f0800c6362d5642e8de701d88f7793015bc406f3dc39fa6ce2784f099f925b08d7b5c1d3614d390470080c SHA512 0672602d2e18c3aee71b3e567b0de572bc8613ee3d24a79a655ded23ac08ec4582193225bc0c0ea390ed81cf5efbb46e8afbe0798d14f2235f811f263c25728c
+DIST packaging-26.0rc1.tar.gz 142273 BLAKE2B 164a8cc27b161c7aa9214ff545a8c26fc44ebc943a4914bcf58ba050d6d3f243aa0a08033b669066cdb3bc8926ad5bcd30651e5490ee92078c41b559e8ba905b SHA512 6b9a18f23821d957546a022c0efcff3af5fa393c3938132868cd6468128820a606a2235642928cb05afea40ae51b071b5403344c308a251d1d31f83047d1d72a
+DIST packaging-26.0rc1.tar.gz.provenance 9673 BLAKE2B 47a90dc7d169887beb4671e2e665b00b0754a7bfe5ab2a3d0ae7e6e044c7ab3abd7c30d5b859af3f6d380c5061f74f77e4a29dc16f5a52e3fc46ed59e92d8067 SHA512 443e51791c9da3b5cdc467af8dfe4d0afa73be748b22b26b58ec81526177f048a6b86ab0c2654cb3b8fa87b741b73416a39eb32dd26a10265fe307443d93eb0a
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild
index 672a4cc558..9619a1fdb0 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="
 
 LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 BSD-2 )"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	!<dev-python/setuptools-67
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-24.2.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-26.0_rc1.ebuild
similarity index 59%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-24.2.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-26.0_rc1.ebuild
index e57457a219..c9f68e88d9 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-24.2.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/packaging/packaging-26.0_rc1.ebuild
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # please keep this ebuild at EAPI 8 -- sys-apps/portage dep
 EAPI=8
 
 DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} python3_13t pypy3 pypy3_11 )
+PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/pypa/packaging
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} python3_{13,14}t pypy3_11 )
 
 inherit distutils-r1 pypi
 
@@ -17,7 +18,9 @@ HOMEPAGE="
 
 LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 BSD-2 )"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+if [[ ${PV} != *_rc* ]]; then
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+fi
 
 RDEPEND="
 	!<dev-python/setuptools-67
@@ -25,9 +28,11 @@ RDEPEND="
 DEPEND="
 	test? (
 		dev-python/pretend[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/tomli-w[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	)
 "
 
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
 python_test() {