diff --git a/app-admin/salt/Manifest b/app-admin/salt/Manifest
index a3926cbc3bbaa..279b0d39af7ef 100644
--- a/app-admin/salt/Manifest
+++ b/app-admin/salt/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ DIST salt-2016.11.8.tar.gz 10142142 BLAKE2B e6805dae84c0d2e39109c95f603fcb54e1b7
 DIST salt-2016.11.9.tar.gz 10062996 BLAKE2B 5176d04d07a69de21c9c136c201d334614c5675fd78e306a0160fae829b633441cd859f4ba1a0822dfbb9ae716475c53f6eb058187d4acc8a5770dd4ceace577 SHA512 896fd27c111e926e246b51d00b69d41c8f4d25ec0c034c9ff3dc5414f5e93592fd637cdeaecf02b3b98a4e5a7ce478bfda86b15497961078374608d76516593d
 DIST salt-2017.7.2.tar.gz 11471191 BLAKE2B 0b7184eb4dcb29f2a9603117d1c6fb9c729093c1ff11e18370929ec3fdbfe7bf8c0914f17260c3f613842c23359205a4a84d3e0bcd67476705e50f805bcd7b69 SHA512 959cec404f0fa7c00f78427cba902b8b9c2c0d95016fc70925d8da6d0b97a0284fc034ac92a5c5c313763db4fdcbd1b0391318596b77fe8e0cd1c7e4b3fa928b
 DIST salt-2017.7.3.tar.gz 36461646 BLAKE2B 560038b8cd49dadec3f37e3864054f32d6d6544b0f48704e94a05b83f9d6277ce456ee36813a23844b93e338ca117ad0ee605dad49e77816810f1e7244b20b27 SHA512 0452ad6cf2a9bcecd0056f0a6f4871e36bf2abe8c207c93f79e1e9ace608b7ba2158e958a71121f230969ff0b32ffd26f048e369003f844eaf3f4f9dd4b4a19a
+DIST salt-2017.7.4.tar.gz 11718327 BLAKE2B c197284ee56d039ee7942534af979f0606093ebdf40e0b11a55ca28a2f64c4b584b09b0901d5cb2c350f4ede52636e7927bbed48355d731472970eda5e32632f SHA512 79d7853c2614ed581e441babe6fbb73809816ec53aa47016b5066b771de449d4dcc999927d7e1c92c5ca68c816d27779e34e31ec1408d473a07120d62846de73
diff --git a/app-admin/salt/salt-2017.7.4.ebuild b/app-admin/salt/salt-2017.7.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6dd2b29b18551
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-admin/salt/salt-2017.7.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit eutils systemd distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Salt is a remote execution and configuration manager"
+HOMEPAGE="http://saltstack.org/"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="git://github.com/${PN}stack/${PN}.git"
+	EGIT_BRANCH="develop"
+	SRC_URI=""
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="cherrypy ldap libcloud libvirt gnupg keyring mako mongodb mysql neutron nova"
+IUSE+=" openssl portage profile redis selinux test timelib raet +zeromq vim-syntax"
+
+RDEPEND="sys-apps/pciutils
+	dev-python/jinja[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/msgpack-0.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/markupsafe[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/requests-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=www-servers/tornado-4.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<www-servers/tornado-5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	virtual/python-futures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	libcloud? ( >=dev-python/libcloud-0.14.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	mako? ( dev-python/mako[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	ldap? ( dev-python/python-ldap[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	libvirt? ( dev-python/libvirt-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	openssl? (
+		dev-libs/openssl:*[-bindist]
+		dev-python/pyopenssl[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	raet? (
+		>=dev-python/libnacl-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/ioflo-1.1.7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/raet-0.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	zeromq? (
+		>=dev-python/pyzmq-2.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/pycrypto-2.6.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	cherrypy? ( >=dev-python/cherrypy-3.2.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	mongodb? ( dev-python/pymongo[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	portage? ( sys-apps/portage[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	keyring? ( dev-python/keyring[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	mysql? ( dev-python/mysql-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	redis? ( dev-python/redis-py[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-salt )
+	timelib? ( dev-python/timelib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	nova? ( >=dev-python/python-novaclient-2.17.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	neutron? ( >=dev-python/python-neutronclient-2.3.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	gnupg? ( dev-python/python-gnupg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	profile? ( dev-python/yappi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	vim-syntax? ( app-vim/salt-vim )"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest-salt[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/psutil[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pip[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/virtualenv[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/timelib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/boto-2.32.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		!x86? ( >=dev-python/boto3-1.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+		>=dev-python/moto-0.3.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/SaltTesting-2016.5.11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/libcloud-0.14.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		${RDEPEND}
+	)"
+
+DOCS=( README.rst AUTHORS )
+
+REQUIRED_USE="|| ( raet zeromq )"
+RESTRICT="x86? ( test )"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2017.7.0-dont-realpath-tmpdir.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2017.7.3-tests.patch"
+)
+
+python_prepare() {
+	rm tests/unit/{test_zypp_plugins.py,utils/test_extend.py} || die
+	rm tests/unit/modules/test_boto_{vpc,secgroup,elb}.py || die
+	rm tests/unit/states/test_boto_vpc.py || die
+	rm tests/unit/modules/test_kubernetes.py || die
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	local svc
+	USE_SETUPTOOLS=1 distutils-r1_python_install_all
+
+	for svc in minion master syndic api; do
+		newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/${svc}-initd-4 salt-${svc}
+		newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/${svc}-confd-1 salt-${svc}
+		systemd_dounit "${FILESDIR}"/salt-${svc}.service
+	done
+
+	insinto /etc/${PN}
+	doins -r conf/*
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local tempdir
+	# testsuite likes lots of files
+	ulimit -n 3072 || die
+
+	# ${T} is too long a path for the tests to work
+	tempdir="$(mktemp -du --tmpdir=/tmp salt-XXX)"
+	mkdir "${T}/$(basename "${tempdir}")"
+	mkdir "${BUILD_DIR}"/../{templates,conf/cloud.{providers,profiles,maps}.d} || die
+
+	(
+		cleanup() {
+			rm -f "${tempdir}"
+			rmdir "${BUILD_DIR}"/../{templates,conf/cloud.{providers,profiles,maps}.d} || die
+		}
+
+		trap cleanup EXIT
+
+		addwrite "${tempdir}"
+		ln -s "$(realpath --relative-to=/tmp "${T}/$(basename "${tempdir}")")" "${tempdir}"
+
+		USE_SETUPTOOLS=1 SHELL="/bin/bash" \
+			TMPDIR="${tempdir}" \
+			${EPYTHON} tests/runtests.py \
+			--unit-tests --no-report --verbose
+
+	) || die "testing failed"
+}