diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index 22ea03c192d2..0ef5d8407dac 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -698,11 +698,12 @@ REPOSITORY_LOCATIONS_SPEC = dict(
         project_name = "Packaging rules for Bazel",
         project_desc = "Bazel rules for the packaging distributions",
         project_url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg",
-        version = "0.5.1",
-        sha256 = "a89e203d3cf264e564fcb96b6e06dd70bc0557356eb48400ce4b5d97c2c3720d",
-        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/{version}/rules_pkg-{version}.tar.gz"],
+        version = "ad57589abb069baa48f982778de408ea02d714fd",
+        sha256 = "ec14799a45f1d3b6c3e61c4d04513001bddac9208f09077b1f8c91ab47d234d2",
+        strip_prefix = "rules_pkg-{version}/pkg",
+        urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/archive/{version}.tar.gz"],
         use_category = ["build"],
-        release_date = "2021-08-18",
+        release_date = "2021-10-22",
     ),
     six = dict(
         project_name = "Six",