diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 7ed4a433f..67dca17c7 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Paste
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0
 Routes>=1.12.3
-amqplib==0.6.1
+amqplib>=0.6.1
 anyjson>=0.2.4
 argparse
 eventlet>=0.9.17
 greenlet>=0.3.1
 httplib2
 iso8601>=0.1.4
-kombu==1.0.4
+kombu>=1.0.4
 netaddr
 python-quantumclient>=2.2.0,<3.0.0
 pyudev