podman-verify-packages.sh/podman-update-packages.sh reported every package as "not installed" right after a genuinely successful install. Root cause: /var/log/packages is itself a symlink on Unraid (-> ../lib/pkgtools/packages), and GNU find's default -P mode doesn't descend into a symlinked starting path at all without -L — confirmed live by running the exact same find both with and without -L against a host where the packages had just installed successfully. Fixing that alone surfaced a second, previously-masked bug: "podman"'s own glob also matches podman-compose's file (a literal prefix collision), and find's unsorted output let podman-compose's record silently win podman's own check. Both fixed once via a new shared podman_find_installed_package_record() helper in podman-common.sh, rather than separately in each caller. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>