diff --git a/bazel-google/Makefile b/bazel-google/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c30deb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bazel-google/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+VERSION=20230129
+BASENAME=bazel-google
+
+help:
+	@echo
+	@echo "make all     # to attempt to download, extract and build the .deb package using dpkg"
+	@echo
+
+all: clean extract DEBIAN build
+
+update-keyring:
+	curl -fsSL https://bazel.build/bazel-release.pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor >bazel-archive-keyring.gpg
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf ../files
+	rm -f ../*.deb
+	rm -f ../*.tar.xz data.tar.xz
+	rm -rf DEBIAN
+
+extract:
+	mkdir -p ../files/usr/share/keyrings
+	cp bazel-archive-keyring.gpg ../files/usr/share/keyrings/
+	mkdir -p ../files/etc/apt/sources.list.d
+	cp bazel.list ../files/etc/apt/sources.list.d/
+
+# makes the DEBIAN/ directory
+DEBIAN:
+	mkdir -p DEBIAN
+
+	# make the md5sum file
+	cd ../files/ && find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \; |sort -k2 >../md5sums
+	mv ../md5sums DEBIAN/
+
+	# make the control there
+	mkdir -p DEBIAN
+	cp control DEBIAN/
+	# echo Version: ${VERSION} >>DEBIAN/control
+
+	cp postinst DEBIAN
+
+build:
+	mv DEBIAN ../files/
+	cd .. && dpkg-deb --build files ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
+	cd .. && dpkg-deb --info ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
+
+# how to make a debian package "raw" just using tar and ar
+#
+# READ THIS AGAIN:
+#
+# A .deb file is just output from 'ar rcs'
+#
+tar-ar: control
+	cd DEBIAN && tar --ignore-failed-read -cvJf ../control.tar.xz .
+	cd files && tar -cvJf ../data.tar.xz .
+	ar rcs ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}_amd64.deb debian-binary control.tar.xz data.tar.xz
+	dpkg-deb --info ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
diff --git a/bazel-google/bazel-archive-keyring.gpg b/bazel-google/bazel-archive-keyring.gpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e503220
Binary files /dev/null and b/bazel-google/bazel-archive-keyring.gpg differ
diff --git a/bazel-google/bazel.list b/bazel-google/bazel.list
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7002f10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bazel-google/bazel.list
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https curl gnupg
+# curl -fsSL https://bazel.build/bazel-release.pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor >bazel-archive-keyring.gpg
+# sudo mv bazel-archive-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings
+
+deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/bazel-archive-keyring.gpg] https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8
diff --git a/bazel-google/compat b/bazel-google/compat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f599e28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bazel-google/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+10
diff --git a/bazel-google/control b/bazel-google/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16fa6fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bazel-google/control
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Source: bazel-google
+Build-Depends: golang
+Package: bazel-google
+Version: 20230129
+Maintainer: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
+Architecture: amd64
+Depends: info
+Description: sets up the apt repository for bazel directly from google
+ As of this build, bazel and tensorflow are under heavy development.
+ For debian, at this time, I would not recommend trying to build this yourself
+ but instead just use the google packages directly. Maybe someone has the time
+ to attempt to rebuild this in the debian build infrastructure, but it's going
+ to be very complicated and error prone.
diff --git a/bazel-google/postinst b/bazel-google/postinst
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0173b0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bazel-google/postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh -x
+
+apt update
+
+set +x
+echo
+echo Installing the default version of bazel needed for tensorflow
+echo
+set -x
+
+apt install bazel-5.3.0
diff --git a/tensorflow/control b/tensorflow/control
index 871ff4d..3442298 100644
--- a/tensorflow/control
+++ b/tensorflow/control
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: tensorflow
-Build-Depends: golang
+Build-Depends: golang bazel-5.3.0
 Package: tensorflow
 Version: 0.6.2
 Maintainer: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>