diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 653a79ea..c3bf0765 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ env:
     SCRIPT_BASE: "./contrib/cirrus"
 
     # Google-cloud VM Images
+    # If you are updating IMAGE_SUFFIX: We are currently using rawhide for
+    # the containers_image_sequoia tests because the rust-podman-sequoia
+    # package is not available in earlier releases; once we update to a future
+    # Fedora release (or if the package is backported), switch back from Rawhide
+    # to the latest Fedora release.
     IMAGE_SUFFIX: "c20250910t092246z-f42f41d13"
     FEDORA_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME: "fedora-${IMAGE_SUFFIX}"
+    RAWHIDE_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME: "rawhide-${IMAGE_SUFFIX}"
 
     # Container FQIN's
     FEDORA_CONTAINER_FQIN: "quay.io/libpod/fedora_podman:${IMAGE_SUFFIX}"
@@ -190,14 +196,21 @@ test_skopeo_task:
         # Required to be 200gig, do not modify - has i/o performance impact
         # according to gcloud CLI tool warning messages.
         disk: 200
-        image_name: ${FEDORA_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME}
+        image_name: ${VM_IMAGE_NAME}
     matrix:
         - name: "Skopeo Test"  # N/B: Name ref. by hack/get_fqin.sh
           env:
               BUILDTAGS: ''
+              VM_IMAGE_NAME: ${FEDORA_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME}
         - name: "Skopeo Test w/ opengpg"
           env:
               BUILDTAGS: *withopengpg
+              VM_IMAGE_NAME: ${FEDORA_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME}
+        - name: "Skopeo test w/ Sequoia (currently Rawhide)"
+          env:
+              BUILDTAGS: 'containers_image_sequoia'
+              # If you are removing the use of rawhide, also remove the VM_IMAGE_NAME condition from runner.sh .
+              VM_IMAGE_NAME: ${RAWHIDE_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME}
     setup_script: >-
         "${GOSRC}/${SCRIPT_BASE}/runner.sh" setup
     vendor_script: >-
@@ -226,6 +239,7 @@ meta_task:
         # Space-separated list of images used by this repository state
         IMGNAMES: |
             ${FEDORA_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME}
+            ${RAWHIDE_CACHE_IMAGE_NAME}
             build-push-${IMAGE_SUFFIX}
         BUILDID: "${CIRRUS_BUILD_ID}"
         REPOREF: "${CIRRUS_REPO_NAME}"
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4fd12949..3c6aaf57 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ GOBIN := $(shell $(GO) env GOBIN)
 GOOS ?= $(shell go env GOOS)
 GOARCH ?= $(shell go env GOARCH)
 
+SEQUOIA_SONAME_DIR =
+
 # N/B: This value is managed by Renovate, manual changes are
 # possible, as long as they don't disturb the formatting
 # (i.e. DO NOT ADD A 'v' prefix!)
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ CONTAINER_GOSRC = /src/github.com/containers/skopeo
 CONTAINER_RUN ?= $(CONTAINER_CMD) --security-opt label=disable -v $(CURDIR):$(CONTAINER_GOSRC) -w $(CONTAINER_GOSRC) $(SKOPEO_CIDEV_CONTAINER_FQIN)
 
 EXTRA_LDFLAGS ?=
-SKOPEO_LDFLAGS := -ldflags '$(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)'
+SKOPEO_LDFLAGS := -ldflags '-X go.podman.io/image/v5/signature/internal/sequoia.sequoiaLibraryDir=$(SEQUOIA_SONAME_DIR) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)'
 
 MANPAGES_MD = $(wildcard docs/*.md)
 MANPAGES ?= $(MANPAGES_MD:%.md=%)
@@ -251,7 +253,7 @@ validate-docs: bin/skopeo
 	hack/xref-helpmsgs-manpages
 
 test-unit-local:
-	$(GO) test -tags "$(BUILDTAGS)" $$($(GO) list -tags "$(BUILDTAGS)" -e ./... | grep -v '^github\.com/containers/skopeo/\(integration\|vendor/.*\)$$')
+	$(GO) test $(SKOPEO_LDFLAGS) -tags "$(BUILDTAGS)" $$($(GO) list -tags "$(BUILDTAGS)" -e ./... | grep -v '^github\.com/containers/skopeo/\(integration\|vendor/.*\)$$')
 
 vendor:
 	$(GO) mod tidy
diff --git a/contrib/cirrus/runner.sh b/contrib/cirrus/runner.sh
index e5ac3df5..3ec9f49c 100755
--- a/contrib/cirrus/runner.sh
+++ b/contrib/cirrus/runner.sh
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ _run_vendor() {
 
 _run_build() {
     make bin/skopeo BUILDTAGS="$BUILDTAGS"
-    make install PREFIX=/usr/local
+    make install PREFIX=/usr/local BUILDTAGS="$BUILDTAGS"
 }
 
 _run_cross() {