diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index 38e6822527..334891aa8e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 # Everything needed for the boot engine
 >=sys-apps/kexec-tools-2.0.4-r1 ~amd64
-sys-kernel/dracut ~amd64
+=sys-kernel/dracut-045-r2 **
 
 # Needed by gsutil
 dev-python/boto