diff --git a/app-containers/podman-tui/Manifest b/app-containers/podman-tui/Manifest
index 961c682739f91..950458b6132bb 100644
--- a/app-containers/podman-tui/Manifest
+++ b/app-containers/podman-tui/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST podman-tui-1.1.0.tar.gz 16091487 BLAKE2B e1d697a94da515c5ed896527bbf25f742a7ee315a5d83565377664c61fc65736beaef43d351dbbd64a0f6e254bed407278532a9a26eda7ec69637348ce60c5ce SHA512 d8e4710f489ac124ad11930c5051d9fc279166316bb85d952847e6a924f70b5cc64487f8c161878a21e8f88784c47c2f9f36b5b332c0736f48f3dd0ada92584a
 DIST podman-tui-1.4.0.tar.gz 20115522 BLAKE2B 8215b631e24b9ded4551f72763911dd5c72dca00f3c9fb56197835b3f2952759951c01673dbbe54a4f07378acad4b713c356b8e47238e590f40a8d7dd31e3a2e SHA512 5a8e69a5c94d746e0d08fa99157cbb35fbd9b2ecb92990083de52b2628607fefc90d24f132fda307f16c946748e8b671f73ab7052488f41e42cf0cb1edc084e1
 DIST podman-tui-1.5.0.tar.gz 20129613 BLAKE2B fb2da2fa77adf7f7b7476144c4e3f4d96829063f1a48cc219f1bd90629744dde53d73a0ceb8adbed385e8acd77d2e5614f932bef902185d5923987e035de4625 SHA512 a67acb15d292692cbe7e1e6e3b55c471a6d3a6ee9e777dcccd9b76bb26906117587b32bb7b6555e87a6079b9154b2355b9ddf00761b25046000578527107fffe
+DIST podman-tui-1.6.1.tar.gz 20301501 BLAKE2B 8e1f2ce6ee35adc236429703158d4df378b3e17783008d81296c21e033cd2b46389f9f7dd2d2210783525ea84def948fb0932087eba163b03dedc929125ef7f5 SHA512 dc7caf7e19440e0b72a19310ff80be979e103793ebbaf1060455632cffaefea3afb01d4c906b83bca13ce4e399680309c6a5142394b32cf76924af8c3c88ed14
diff --git a/app-containers/podman-tui/podman-tui-1.6.1.ebuild b/app-containers/podman-tui/podman-tui-1.6.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7d0076fdcbb89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-containers/podman-tui/podman-tui-1.6.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit go-module
+DESCRIPTION="Terminal UI frontend for Podman"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/containers/podman-tui"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/containers/podman-tui.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/containers/podman-tui/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+# main pkg
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+# deps
+LICENSE+=" BSD-2 BSD MIT MPL-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+src_compile() {
+	# parse tags from Makefile & make them comma-seperated as space-seperated list is deprecated
+	local BUILDTAGS=$(grep 'BUILDTAGS :=' Makefile | awk -F\" '{ print $2; }' | sed -e 's| |,|g;')
+	ego build -tags "${BUILDTAGS}"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin "${PN}"
+	einstalldocs
+}