diff --git a/sysutils/podman/Makefile b/sysutils/podman/Makefile
index 65008f4cac74..22743dcddeab 100644
--- a/sysutils/podman/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/podman/Makefile
@@ -1,44 +1,44 @@
 PORTNAME=	podman
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	5.1.1
-PORTREVISION=	4
+PORTREVISION=	5
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 
 MAINTAINER=	dfr@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Manage Pods, Containers and Container Images
 WWW=		https://podman.io/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash \
 		go-md2man:textproc/go-md2man \
 		gsed:textproc/gsed
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libgpgme.so:security/gpgme
 RUN_DEPENDS=	conmon:sysutils/conmon \
 		containernetworking-plugins>=0:net/containernetworking-plugins \
 		containers-common>=0:sysutils/containers-common \
 		ocijail:sysutils/ocijail
 
 USES=		gmake go:no_targets pkgconfig python:build shebangfix
 USE_RC_SUBR=	podman podman_service
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	${WRKSRC}/hack/markdown-preprocess
 MAKE_ARGS=	SHELL=${LOCALBASE}/bin/bash
 
 # Parallel builds are flaky due to some kind of file race in the
 # markdown-preprocess phase of the docs build.
 MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=	yes
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	containers
 GH_PROJECT=	podman
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install install.completions
 
 # Temporary until https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/16422 lands
 do-install:
 	${GMAKE} -C ${WRKSRC} ${MAKE_ARGS} DESTDIR=${STAGEDIR} GO=${GO_CMD} install
 	${GMAKE} -C ${WRKSRC} ${MAKE_ARGS} DESTDIR=${STAGEDIR} GO=${GO_CMD} install.completions
 	${RM} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib/tmpfiles.d/podman.conf
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/podman/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__freebsd.go b/sysutils/podman/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__freebsd.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1334657fa9ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/podman/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	2024-08-23 10:19:26 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/podman/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__unix.go b/sysutils/podman/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__unix.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0778a2749c65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/podman/files/patch-vendor_github.com_containers_storage_pkg_fileutils_exists__unix.go
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- vendor/github.com/containers/storage/pkg/fileutils/exists_unix.go.orig	2024-08-23 10:19:17 UTC
++++ vendor/github.com/containers/storage/pkg/fileutils/exists_unix.go
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+-//go:build !windows
+-// +build !windows
++//go:build !windows && !freebsd
++// +build !windows,!freebsd
+ 
+ package fileutils
+