diff --git a/test/e2e/manifest_test.go b/test/e2e/manifest_test.go
index 3a05c4f5ca..6ae73ba2a5 100644
--- a/test/e2e/manifest_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/manifest_test.go
@@ -16,6 +16,35 @@ import (
 	imgspecv1 "github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go/v1"
 )
 
+// validateManifestHasAllArchs checks that the specified manifest has all
+// the archs in `imageList`
+func validateManifestHasAllArchs(path string) error {
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var result struct {
+		Manifests []struct {
+			Platform struct {
+				Architecture string
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &result); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	archs := map[string]bool{
+		"amd64":   false,
+		"arm64":   false,
+		"ppc64le": false,
+		"s390x":   false,
+	}
+	for _, m := range result.Manifests {
+		archs[m.Platform.Architecture] = true
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Internal function to verify instance compression
 func verifyInstanceCompression(descriptor []imgspecv1.Descriptor, compression string, arch string) bool {
 	for _, instance := range descriptor {
@@ -419,19 +448,8 @@ add_compression = ["zstd"]`), 0o644)
 		session.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
 		Expect(session).Should(ExitCleanly())
 
-		files, err := filepath.Glob(dest + string(os.PathSeparator) + "*")
-		Expect(err).ShouldNot(HaveOccurred())
-		check := SystemExec("sha256sum", files)
-		check.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
-		Expect(check).Should(ExitCleanly())
-		prefix := "sha256:"
-		Expect(check.OutputToString()).To(
-			And(
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListAMD64InstanceDigest, prefix)),
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListPPC64LEInstanceDigest, prefix)),
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListS390XInstanceDigest, prefix)),
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListARM64InstanceDigest, prefix)),
-			))
+		err = validateManifestHasAllArchs(filepath.Join(dest, "manifest.json"))
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
 	})
 
 	It("push", func() {
@@ -451,20 +469,9 @@ add_compression = ["zstd"]`), 0o644)
 		session = podmanTest.Podman([]string{"push", "-q", "foo", "dir:" + dest})
 		session.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
 		Expect(session).Should(ExitCleanly())
-		files, err := filepath.Glob(dest + string(os.PathSeparator) + "*")
-		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
-		check := SystemExec("sha256sum", files)
-		check.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
-		Expect(check).Should(ExitCleanly())
 
-		prefix := "sha256:"
-		Expect(check.OutputToString()).To(
-			And(
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListAMD64InstanceDigest, prefix)),
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListPPC64LEInstanceDigest, prefix)),
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListS390XInstanceDigest, prefix)),
-				ContainSubstring(strings.TrimPrefix(imageListARM64InstanceDigest, prefix)),
-			))
+		err = validateManifestHasAllArchs(filepath.Join(dest, "manifest.json"))
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
 	})
 
 	It("push with compression-format and compression-level", func() {