diff --git a/sysutils/skopeo/Makefile b/sysutils/skopeo/Makefile
index 4e24326ce7f0..b683e4020da1 100644
--- a/sysutils/skopeo/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/skopeo/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 PORTNAME=	skopeo
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	1.16.1
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 
 MAINTAINER=	dfr@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Inspect container images and repositories on registries
 WWW=		https://github.com/containers/skopeo
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash \
 		curl:ftp/curl \
 		go-md2man:textproc/go-md2man
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgpgme.so:security/gpgme
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/etc/containers/containers.conf.sample:sysutils/containers-common
 
 USES=		gmake go:modules,no_targets pkgconfig
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	containers
 
 do-install:
 	${SETENV} ${MAKE_ENV} ${GO_ENV} ${GMAKE} -C ${WRKSRC} \
 		DESTDIR=${STAGEDIR} GOCACHE=${TMPDIR} \
 		GO=${GO_CMD} install-binary install-docs install-completions
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/containers/registries.d
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/default.yaml ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/containers/registries.d/default.yaml
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/skopeo/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__freebsd.go b/sysutils/skopeo/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__freebsd.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9d548d485a79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/skopeo/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__freebsd.go
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+--- vendor/github.com/containers/storage/pkg/fileutils/exists_freebsd.go.orig	2024-12-06 15:50:57 UTC
++++ vendor/github.com/containers/storage/pkg/fileutils/exists_freebsd.go
+@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
++package fileutils
++
++import (
++	"errors"
++	"os"
++	"syscall"
++
++	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
++)
++
++// Exists checks whether a file or directory exists at the given path.
++// If the path is a symlink, the symlink is followed.
++func Exists(path string) error {
++	// It uses unix.Faccessat which is a faster operation compared to os.Stat for
++	// simply checking the existence of a file.
++	err := unix.Faccessat(unix.AT_FDCWD, path, unix.F_OK, 0)
++	if err != nil {
++		return &os.PathError{Op: "faccessat", Path: path, Err: err}
++	}
++	return nil
++}
++
++// Lexists checks whether a file or directory exists at the given path.
++// If the path is a symlink, the symlink itself is checked.
++func Lexists(path string) error {
++	// FreeBSD before 15.0 does not support the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag for
++	// faccessat. In this case, the call to faccessat will return EINVAL and
++	// we fall back to using Lstat.
++	err := unix.Faccessat(unix.AT_FDCWD, path, unix.F_OK, unix.AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
++	if err != nil {
++		if errors.Is(err, syscall.EINVAL) {
++			_, err = os.Lstat(path)
++			return err
++		}
++		return &os.PathError{Op: "faccessat", Path: path, Err: err}
++	}
++	return nil
++}
diff --git a/sysutils/skopeo/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__unix.go b/sysutils/skopeo/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__unix.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c5d9c783d732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/skopeo/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__unix.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- vendor/github.com/containers/storage/pkg/fileutils/exists_unix.go.orig	2024-12-06 15:50:49 UTC
++++ vendor/github.com/containers/storage/pkg/fileutils/exists_unix.go
+@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
+-//go:build !windows
+-// +build !windows
++//go:build !windows && !freebsd
+ 
+ package fileutils
+