diff --git a/dev-util/patchelf/patchelf-0.9.ebuild b/dev-util/patchelf/patchelf-0.9.ebuild
index 47264579ddde7..334bfba21b476 100644
--- a/dev-util/patchelf/patchelf-0.9.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/patchelf/patchelf-0.9.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executa
 HOMEPAGE="http://nixos.org/patchelf.html"
 SRC_URI="http://releases.nixos.org/${PN}/${P}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 
 src_prepare() {