Tensorflow-2.5.0 has been out for a month, most importantly it brings python 3.9 and a bunch of security fixes (that have now been backported) While you're at it, could you consider changing $S to $WORKDIR ? Otherwise patching the bazel distfiles is not possible. Best Regards, Jannik
Closing as 2.5.0 was released with https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=600a70b193e864057b5eb0f78ca714852e11f1e7