PODMAN for intel Macs

[Acreew]

Has the PODMAN installer for intel Macs been deprecated? I don't find the installer with the latest releases. Earlier releases won't install and give the message “podman-installer-macos-amd64.pkg” Not Opened. Apple could not verify “podman-installer-macos-amd64.pkg” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.

[Arthur031221]

The current Podman 6.1.3 release has a macOS ARM64 installer but no macOS Intel installer. The 5.8.8 release still has podman-installer-macos-amd64.pkg, so an Intel Mac needs that 5.x package rather than the 6.1.3 ARM package. The release assets alone do not establish a formal end-of-support policy for Intel Macs.

I checked the upstream release assets and the published digest:

$ gh api repos/containers/podman/releases/latest --jq '[.tag_name, ([.assets[].name] | map(select(startswith("podman-installer-macos"))))] | @json'
["v6.1.3",["podman-installer-macos-arm64.pkg"]]
$ gh api repos/containers/podman/releases/tags/v5.8.8 --jq '[.tag_name, (.assets[] | select(.name=="podman-installer-macos-amd64.pkg") | .digest)] | @json'
["v5.8.8","sha256:0bd0b3e2ee16ebe9152b3cc8f555b3701ddae15f6f7e3df1dc68343d29eadc06"]

Download the Intel package from the official 5.8.8 release and compare shasum -a 256 podman-installer-macos-amd64.pkg with the digest above before installing. For the macOS verification dialog, Apple documents opening System Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Open Anyway after an attempted install, if you have verified and trust the package. See Apple's instructions. I cannot test that macOS prompt from this Linux host, so if macOS reports that the package will damage your Mac rather than that it cannot verify it, stop instead of overriding the warning.