diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/ignition/ignition-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/ignition/ignition-9999.ebuild
index dbbef74f84..0ba2f1630c 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/ignition/ignition-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-apps/ignition/ignition-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2015 CoreOS, Inc.. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=5
+EAPI=7
 CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="coreos/ignition"
 CROS_WORKON_LOCALNAME="ignition"
 CROS_WORKON_REPO="git://github.com"