diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos-cloudinit/coreos-cloudinit-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos-cloudinit/coreos-cloudinit-9999.ebuild
index 140f43ae32..946a155c71 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos-cloudinit/coreos-cloudinit-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos-cloudinit/coreos-cloudinit-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2014 CoreOS, Inc.. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=5
+EAPI=7
 CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="coreos/coreos-cloudinit"
 CROS_WORKON_LOCALNAME="coreos-cloudinit"
 CROS_WORKON_REPO="git://github.com"