diff --git a/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild b/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
index edc2ae5310..7a32f790b7 100644
--- a/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -127,3 +127,8 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	!coreos-base/google-breakpad
 	"
+
+# required for squashFS relabelling
+RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	sys-fs/squashfs-tools-ng
+	"
diff --git a/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use b/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
index 82cd27b1a9..f152d6c938 100644
--- a/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
+++ b/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
@@ -28,3 +28,6 @@ x11-libs/pixman static-libs
 
 # Enable gssapi for SDK
 net-dns/bind-tools           gssapi
+
+# Enable SELinux for relabelling with gensquashfs
+sys-fs/squashfs-tools-ng selinux