diff --git a/build_library/check_root b/build_library/check_root
index 8c522957a2..ec1531d4d9 100755
--- a/build_library/check_root
+++ b/build_library/check_root
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ IGNORE_SYMLINK = (
     b"/etc/lsb-release",  # set later in the build process
     b"/usr/share/coreos", # set later in the build process
     b"/etc/coreos",       # set later in the build process
-    b"/usr/src/linux-*/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_mcsafe_64.S" # broken symlink in Kernel source tree
+    b"/usr/src/linux-*/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_mcsafe_64.S", # broken symlink in Kernel source tree
+    b"/usr/lib*/python3*/site-packages/*egg-info", # broken symlink from dev-python/certifi that is not filtered by INSTALL_MASK
 )