diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-python/distro-oem/distro-oem-1.6.0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-python/distro-oem/distro-oem-1.6.0.ebuild
index 1b72a4c50f..fe6d3f81ab 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-python/distro-oem/distro-oem-1.6.0.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-python/distro-oem/distro-oem-1.6.0.ebuild
@@ -13,8 +13,13 @@ SRC_URI="${HOMEPAGE}/releases/download/v${PV}/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64"
 
+# Depending on specific version of python-oem allows us to notice when
+# we update the major version of python and then to update the
+# site-packages path below.
+DEP_PYVER="3.6"
+
 SLOT="0"
-RDEPEND="dev-lang/python-oem"
+RDEPEND="dev-lang/python-oem:${DEP_PYVER}"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
 
@@ -25,6 +30,6 @@ src_compile() {
 
 src_install() {
 	# When updating python-oem, remember to update the path below.
-	insinto "/usr/share/oem/python/$(get_libdir)/python3.6/site-packages"
+	insinto "/usr/share/oem/python/$(get_libdir)/python${DEP_PYVER}/site-packages"
 	doins "${S}/distro.py"
 }