diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 10e4be2f..3ba9515d 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 recommends 'chef-provisioning'
 
-depends 'libarchive'
+depends 'libarchive', "~> 0.4.0"
 depends 'golang', '~> 1.4'
 depends 'runit'
 depends 'yum-repoforge'