podman manifest create fails on missing remote image while it exists locally.

[EdDev]

When trying to create a manifest from an existing local image, it fails due to the image missing on the remote registry.
I'm running this on github actions and the podman version there is 4.9.3.
When I run the same locally, with podman 5.4.1 it tries to access the remote registry but the operation continues even though it does not succeed.

Is there a solution/workaround to this one?

The execution with the debug info:

 podman --version
podman version 4.9.3
+ podman images
REPOSITORY        TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED         SIZE
localhost/fedora  41-amd64    35bee4ec409c  14 seconds ago  1.09 GB
+ podman tag localhost/fedora:41-amd64 quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64
+ podman images
REPOSITORY                                         TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED         SIZE
quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging  41-amd64    35bee4ec409c  14 seconds ago  1.09 GB
localhost/fedora                                   41-amd64    35bee4ec409c  14 seconds ago  1.09 GB
+ podman manifest create --log-level=debug quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-dev quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=info msg="podman filtering at log level debug"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Called create.PersistentPreRunE(podman manifest create --log-level=debug quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-dev quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64)"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using conmon: \"/usr/bin/conmon\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=info msg="Using sqlite as database backend"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="systemd-logind: Unknown object '/'."
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using graph driver overlay"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using graph root /home/runner/.local/share/containers/storage"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using run root /run/user/1001/containers"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using static dir /home/runner/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using tmp dir /run/user/1001/libpod/tmp"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using volume path /home/runner/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using transient store: false"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="[graphdriver] trying provided driver \"overlay\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Cached value indicated that overlay is supported"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Cached value indicated that overlay is supported"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Cached value indicated that metacopy is not being used"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Cached value indicated that native-diff is usable"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="backingFs=extfs, projectQuotaSupported=false, useNativeDiff=true, usingMetacopy=false"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Initializing event backend journald"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime crun-wasm initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime crun-wasm: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime runj initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runj: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime kata initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime kata: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime runsc initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runsc: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime youki initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime youki: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime krun initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime krun: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Configured OCI runtime ocijail initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime ocijail: invalid argument"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using OCI runtime \"/usr/bin/crun\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=info msg="Setting parallel job count to 13"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Looking up image \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" in local containers storage"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Trying \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" ..."
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="parsed reference into \"[overlay@/home/runner/.local/share/containers/storage+/run/user/1001/containers]@dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Found image \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" as \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" in local containers storage"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Looking up image \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" in local containers storage"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Trying \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" ..."
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="parsed reference into \"[overlay@/home/runner/.local/share/containers/storage+/run/user/1001/containers]@dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Found image \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" as \"dcb573a7310e9e9d7890305eadda44a914460465ca1e9c4118eb5bba7c17418d\" in local containers storage"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Using registries.d directory /etc/containers/registries.d"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Loading registries configuration \"/etc/containers/registries.conf\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Loading registries configuration \"/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/shortnames.conf\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Trying to access \"quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Found credentials for quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging in credential helper containers-auth.json in file /run/user/1001/containers/auth.json"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg=" No signature storage configuration found for quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64, using built-in default file:///home/runner/.local/share/containers/sigstore"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Looking for TLS certificates and private keys in /etc/docker/certs.d/quay.io"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="GET https://quay.io/v2/"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Ping https://quay.io/v2/ status 401"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="GET https://quay.io/v2/auth?account=***&scope=repository%3Aopenshift-cnv%2Fqe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging%3Apull&service=quay.io"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="Increasing token expiration to: 60 seconds"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:57Z" level=debug msg="GET https://quay.io/v2/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging/manifests/41-amd64"
time="2025-04-03T05:25:58Z" level=debug msg="Content-Type from manifest GET is \"application/json\""
time="2025-04-03T05:25:58Z" level=debug msg="Accessing \"quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64\" failed: reading manifest 41-amd64 in quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging: manifest unknown"
Error: setting up to read manifest and configuration from "docker://quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging:41-amd64": reading manifest 41-amd64 in quay.io/openshift-cnv/qe-cnv-tests-fedora-staging: manifest unknown
time="2025-04-03T05:25:58Z" level=debug msg="Shutting down engines"

[nalind]

If you have the image ID or its full name, prefacing that with containers-storage: should tell podman what you're after, like so:

podman manifest create foo
podman pull docker.io/library/alpine
podman tag docker.io/library/alpine:latest jimbo
podman manifest add foo containers-storage:localhost/jimbo:latest