diff --git a/sci-geosciences/grass/files/grass-8.5.0-mariadb.patch b/sci-geosciences/grass/files/grass-8.5.0-mariadb.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7ab16323af658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sci-geosciences/grass/files/grass-8.5.0-mariadb.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/975252
+diff --git a/cmake/find_scripts/FindMySQL.cmake b/cmake/find_scripts/FindMySQL.cmake
+index 59f36a0772..12f7d574d4 100644
+--- a/cmake/find_scripts/FindMySQL.cmake
++++ b/cmake/find_scripts/FindMySQL.cmake
+@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+ execute_process(
+-  COMMAND mysql_config --cflags
++  COMMAND mariadb_config --cflags
+   OUTPUT_VARIABLE MySQL_INCLUDE_DIRS
+   OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+ execute_process(
+-  COMMAND mysql_config --libs
++  COMMAND mariadb_config --libs
+   OUTPUT_VARIABLE MySQL_LIBRARY
+   OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+ 
diff --git a/sci-geosciences/grass/grass-8.5.0.ebuild b/sci-geosciences/grass/grass-8.5.0-r1.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from sci-geosciences/grass/grass-8.5.0.ebuild
rename to sci-geosciences/grass/grass-8.5.0-r1.ebuild
index 28905f6bc92ca..d59eb1698d86b 100644
--- a/sci-geosciences/grass/grass-8.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-geosciences/grass/grass-8.5.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 			virtual/lapack[flexiblas(-)]
 		)
 	)
-	mysql? ( dev-db/mysql-connector-c:= )
+	mysql? ( dev-db/mariadb-connector-c:= )
 	netcdf? ( sci-libs/netcdf:= )
 	odbc? ( dev-db/unixODBC )
 	opencl? ( virtual/opencl )
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ BDEPEND="
 
 RESTRICT="test"
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-mariadb.patch"
+)
+
 pkg_pretend() {
 	[[ ${MERGE_TYPE} != binary ]] && use openmp && tc-check-openmp
 }