diff --git a/dev-util/systemtap/systemtap-4.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-util/systemtap/systemtap-4.0-r1.ebuild
index f3f7f93791096..c978e0325f73b 100644
--- a/dev-util/systemtap/systemtap-4.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/systemtap/systemtap-4.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/elfutils-0.142
 	)
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	app-arch/cpio
 	app-text/xmlto
 	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.18.2
 	libvirt? ( dev-libs/libxml2 )