diff --git a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
index a8f120f19feea..f692eda10966b 100644
--- a/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
+++ b/bazel/repository_locations.bzl
@@ -680,12 +680,12 @@ 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 = "e5d1ed4e23b291073d8a9058a671a1bd9664f230",
-        sha256 = "c76ca18f745673b8c2a7bbe867893ffb252c6bebf91f9a1eee15cfa054957ea7",
+        version = "0.6.0",
+        sha256 = "04535dbfbdf3ec839a2c578a0705a34e5a0bbfd4438b29e285b961e6e0b97ce1",
         strip_prefix = "rules_pkg-{version}",
         urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/archive/{version}.tar.gz"],
         use_category = ["build"],
-        release_date = "2021-12-15",
+        release_date = "2022-01-24",
     ),
     org_llvm_llvm = dict(
         # When changing this, you must re-generate the list of llvm libs