diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/packages b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/packages
index b3d2b41785..62840c2878 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/packages
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/packages
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@
 -*sys-apps/kbd
 *app-arch/lbzip2
 *sys-libs/nss-usrfiles
+
+# temporary hack because catalyst is not passing --deep to an emerge @system
+# command and therefore not resolving a block that can be easily fixed.
+*sys-apps/attr