diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/base/packages b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/base/packages
index c084acd8eb..ed51b0cc64 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/base/packages
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/base/packages
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 *app-arch/cpio
 *app-arch/gzip
 *app-arch/tar
+*app-arch/xz-utils
 *app-shells/bash
 #*dev-lang/perl
 #*dev-lang/python