diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.29.0-r1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.29.0-r2.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.29.0-r1.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-1.29.0-r2.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild
index 002217f920..e1424a8765 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/rkt/rkt-9999.ebuild
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ EAPI=5
 AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=yes
 AUTOTOOLS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD=yes
 
+# temporary downgrade for https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/2402
+COREOS_GO_VERSION="go1.9"
+
 inherit autotools-utils flag-o-matic systemd toolchain-funcs multilib
 inherit cros-workon coreos-go-depend