generated: '2026-09-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://proxy.golang.org/go.podman.io/buildah/@latest,
  https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/containers/buildah/@latest,
  https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/blob/main/go.mod,
  https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/blob/main/install.md
name: Buildah packages and distributions
note: >-
  Buildah is a Go program, not a hosted API, so it publishes no client SDKs. What it
  distributes is (a) the Go module that IS the tool — imported directly by Podman and by
  other build tooling — and (b) OS packages built by Linux distributions. The Go module
  path was renamed from github.com/containers/buildah to go.podman.io/buildah when the
  project moved into the podman-container-tools GitHub organization under the CNCF
  Podman Container Tools project; both paths currently resolve on the Go module proxy to
  the same v1.45.0 tag and commit (7ae7d5a4021b24d02a5c281badca8c4d8ebbf442).
  No npm, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io, NuGet or Maven package is published (probed; 404).
packages:
  - name: go.podman.io/buildah
    registry: go
    official: true
    language: Go
    version: v1.45.0
    published: '2026-07-30'
    url: https://pkg.go.dev/go.podman.io/buildah
    repository: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah
    metadata_endpoint: https://proxy.golang.org/go.podman.io/buildah/@latest
    role: library
    note: >-
      Canonical module path declared in go.mod (module go.podman.io/buildah). This is the
      importable Go API surface (pkg/, define/, imagebuildah/, copier/) as well as the
      source of the buildah binary.
  - name: github.com/containers/buildah
    registry: go
    official: true
    language: Go
    version: v1.45.0
    published: '2026-07-30'
    url: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/containers/buildah
    repository: https://github.com/containers/buildah
    metadata_endpoint: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/containers/buildah/@latest
    role: library
    status: legacy-path
    note: >-
      Historic module path. Still resolves on proxy.golang.org (same version, same commit)
      because the GitHub repository rename from containers/buildah to
      podman-container-tools/buildah is followed by a redirect, but go.mod no longer
      declares it. New consumers should use go.podman.io/buildah.
distribution_packages:
  note: >-
    Distribution packages are built and versioned by each distribution, not by the Buildah
    project, so there is no first-party registry metadata endpoint to read a version from.
    Recorded from the project's own install.md; version and published are null because the
    upstream project does not publish them.
  source: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/buildah/blob/main/install.md
  entries:
    - name: buildah
      registry: distro
      distribution: Fedora
      official: false
      install: dnf -y install buildah
      version: null
      published: null
    - name: buildah
      registry: distro
      distribution: Debian
      official: false
      install: apt-get -y install buildah
      version: null
      published: null
      url: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/buildah
    - name: buildah
      registry: distro
      distribution: Arch Linux
      official: false
      install: pacman -S buildah
      version: null
      published: null
    - name: app-containers/buildah
      registry: distro
      distribution: Gentoo
      official: false
      install: emerge app-containers/buildah
      version: null
      published: null
      url: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-containers/buildah
    - name: buildah
      registry: distro
      distribution: openSUSE
      official: false
      install: zypper install buildah
      version: null
      published: null
    - name: buildah
      registry: distro
      distribution: CentOS / RHEL
      official: false
      install: yum -y install buildah
      version: null
      published: null
      note: install.md states the packaged version often lags the upstream release.
absent_registries:
  - registry: npm
    probed: https://registry.npmjs.org/buildah
    status: 404
  - registry: pypi
    probed: https://pypi.org/pypi/buildah/json
    status: 404
sdk_note: >-
  No official client SDKs are published and none would be meaningful: Buildah exposes no
  network API. The `SDKs` pointer is deliberately NOT wired for this provider.