diff --git a/libcontainers-common.changes b/libcontainers-common.changes
index 3f30012..67a0fdc 100644
--- a/libcontainers-common.changes
+++ b/libcontainers-common.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 16 12:51:34 UTC 2023 - Danish Prakash <danish.prakash@suse.com>
+
+- Introduce new subpackage that adds SLE-specific mounts only
+  on SLE systems (if sles-release) hence avoiding superfluous
+  warnings on non-SLE systems while running podman commands.
+  (bsc#1211124)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Apr 26 12:43:41 UTC 2023 - Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/libcontainers-common.spec b/libcontainers-common.spec
index 4eae29d..224abdd 100644
--- a/libcontainers-common.spec
+++ b/libcontainers-common.spec
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Source11:       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containers/shortnames/v%{short
 BuildRequires:  go-go-md2man
 Requires(post): %{_bindir}/grep
 Requires(post): %{_bindir}/sed
+# add SLE-specific mounts for only SLES systems
+Requires:       (libcontainers-sles-mounts if sles-release)
 Provides:       libcontainers-image = %{version}
 Provides:       libcontainers-storage = %{version}
 Obsoletes:      libcontainers-image < %{version}
@@ -64,6 +66,12 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 Configuration files and manpages shared by tools that are based on the
 github.com/containers libraries, such as Buildah, CRI-O, Podman and Skopeo.
 
+%package -n libcontainers-sles-mounts
+Summary:        Default mounts for SLE distributions
+
+%description -n libcontainers-sles-mounts
+Updates /etc/containers/mounts.conf with default mounts for SLE distributions
+
 %prep
 %setup -q -Tcq -b0 -b1 -b8
 # copy the LICENSE file in the build root
@@ -95,14 +103,12 @@ cd common-%{commonver}
 go-md2man -in pkg/hooks/docs/oci-hooks.5.md -out pkg/hooks/docs/oci-hooks.5
 cd ..
 
-%if 0%{?is_opensuse}
-# no default mounts
-%else
+# These would only be used on SLE-systems
+# via libcontainers-sles-mounts subpackage
 cat >>%{SOURCE5} <<EOL
 %{_sysconfdir}/SUSEConnect:%{_sysconfdir}/SUSEConnect
 %{_sysconfdir}/zypp/credentials.d/SCCcredentials:%{_sysconfdir}/zypp/credentials.d/SCCcredentials
 EOL
-%endif
 
 cd common-%{commonver}
 %make_build docs
@@ -158,8 +164,6 @@ sed -i 's/ostree_repo = ""/\#ostree_repo = ""/g' %{_sysconfdir}/containers/stora
 
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/policy.json
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/storage.conf
-%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/mounts.conf
-%{_datadir}/containers/mounts.conf
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/registries.conf
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/seccomp.json
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/registries.d/default.yaml
@@ -171,4 +175,8 @@ sed -i 's/ostree_repo = ""/\#ostree_repo = ""/g' %{_sysconfdir}/containers/stora
 %{_mandir}/man5/*.5%{?ext_man}
 %license LICENSE
 
+%files -n libcontainers-sles-mounts
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/containers/mounts.conf
+%{_datadir}/containers/mounts.conf
+
 %changelog