diff --git a/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-8.2.0-r4.ebuild b/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-8.2.0-r5.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-8.2.0-r4.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-8.2.0-r5.ebuild
index edc5a635adc65..2d1d22eb5e939 100644
--- a/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-8.2.0-r4.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-8.2.0-r5.ebuild
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ RDEPEND="
 		')
 	)
 	utils? (
-		dev-libs/imath:=
-		media-libs/openexr:=
+		>=dev-libs/imath-3.1.4-r2:=
+		>=media-libs/openexr-3:=
 	)
 	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
 "
diff --git a/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-9.0.0-r1.ebuild b/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-9.0.0-r2.ebuild
similarity index 98%
rename from media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-9.0.0-r1.ebuild
rename to media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-9.0.0-r2.ebuild
index f7aaf0b3943ed..7708562fd8be5 100644
--- a/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-9.0.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/openvdb/openvdb-9.0.0-r2.ebuild
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/boost:=
 	dev-libs/jemalloc:=
 	dev-libs/log4cplus:=
-	dev-libs/imath:=
+	>=dev-libs/imath-3.1.4-r2:=
 	media-libs/glfw
 	media-libs/glu
-	media-libs/openexr:=
+	>=media-libs/openexr-3:=
 	sys-libs/zlib:=
 	x11-libs/libXcursor
 	x11-libs/libXi