3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/bazeldefs/BUILD b/tools/bazeldefs/BUILD
index a4a605346..ebe90dfec 100644
--- a/tools/bazeldefs/BUILD
+++ b/tools/bazeldefs/BUILD
@@ -37,3 +37,11 @@ config_setting(
     },
     visibility = ["//visibility:private"],
 )
+
+genrule(
+    name = "version",
+    outs = ["version.txt"],
+    cmd = "cat bazel-out/stable-status.txt | grep STABLE_VERSION | cut -d' ' -f2- >$@",
+    stamp = True,
+    visibility = ["//:sandbox"],
+)
diff --git a/tools/bazeldefs/defs.bzl b/tools/bazeldefs/defs.bzl
index 58ced5167..7875bbaea 100644
--- a/tools/bazeldefs/defs.bzl
+++ b/tools/bazeldefs/defs.bzl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ build_test = _build_test
 bzl_library = _bzl_library
 more_shards = 4
 most_shards = 8
+version = "//tools/bazeldefs:version"
 
 def short_path(path):
     return path
diff --git a/tools/bazeldefs/pkg.bzl b/tools/bazeldefs/pkg.bzl
index 56317d93f..ccc9bdeef 100644
--- a/tools/bazeldefs/pkg.bzl
+++ b/tools/bazeldefs/pkg.bzl
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """Packaging rules."""
 
-load("@rules_pkg//:pkg.bzl", _pkg_deb = "pkg_deb", _pkg_tar = "pkg_tar")
+# N.B. We refer to pkg_deb_impl to avoid the macro, which cannot use select.
+load("@rules_pkg//:pkg.bzl", _pkg_deb = "pkg_deb_impl", _pkg_tar = "pkg_tar")
 
 pkg_deb = _pkg_deb
 pkg_tar = _pkg_tar