diff --git a/dev-libs/rocm-core/Manifest b/dev-libs/rocm-core/Manifest
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+DIST rocm-core-7.0.2.tar.gz 20551 BLAKE2B 453c5a11790d24200b8165e0d18246ea006a580f84beb51f6cd6f76ed9b880711f413011e62daec8de3c4d6cad54f53407cb082673017d645149a850ea2181bc SHA512 9dd7c6965bd13ebc92e3d16b7bd680e50de163afb532a4eb962668799650a89f2a7dcbe18935d858664fcfdbcb12373af1ff5e8ac4778ee8b7b4692d1a253c3e
diff --git a/dev-libs/rocm-core/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/rocm-core/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+    <maintainer type="person">
+        <email>lockalsash@gmail.com</email>
+        <name>Sv. Lockal</name>
+    </maintainer>
+    <maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+        <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+        <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+    </maintainer>
+    <upstream>
+        <remote-id type="github">ROCm/rocm-systems</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-libs/rocm-core/rocm-core-7.0.2.ebuild b/dev-libs/rocm-core/rocm-core-7.0.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library that provides ROCm release version and install path information"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems/tree/develop/projects/rocm-core"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-core/archive/refs/tags/rocm-${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/rocm-core-rocm-${PV}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0/$(ver_cut 1-2)"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=( -DROCM_VERSION=${PV} )
+	cmake_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cmake_src_install
+	# too broad for standard directory
+	rm "${ED}"/usr/.info/version || die
+}
+
+RDEPEND="!<dev-util/hip-7.0"