diff --git a/base/comps/components-full.toml b/base/comps/components-full.toml
index 2e3337b76f7..5d438968af9 100644
--- a/base/comps/components-full.toml
+++ b/base/comps/components-full.toml
@@ -4885,7 +4885,6 @@
 [components.rocthrust]
 [components.roctracer]
 [components.rocwmma]
-[components.rootlesskit]
 [components.rpcsvc-proto]
 [components.rpm-mpi-hooks]
 [components.rpm-ostree]
diff --git a/base/comps/rootlesskit/rootlesskit.comp.toml b/base/comps/rootlesskit/rootlesskit.comp.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21bd0fd3bb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/comps/rootlesskit/rootlesskit.comp.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[components.rootlesskit]
+# Pin to the f43 commit used to build the current Fedora 43 package.
+# TODO: Drop this override once the default Fedora 43 snapshot
+# in distro/azurelinux.distro.toml advances past this commit.
+spec = { type = "upstream", upstream-name = "golang-github-rootless-containers-rootlesskit", upstream-distro = { name = "fedora", version = "43" }, upstream-commit = "eb6bc70fe34cb6947bb1fb1b61b23e34159273e7" }