diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 76498c4ebc..ff25d544b4 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ eventlet>=0.9.17
 greenlet>=0.3.1
 httplib2
 iso8601>=0.1.4
-kombu==1.0.4
+kombu>=1.0.4
 argparse
 lxml>=2.3,<=2.3.5
 sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.7.2