Hmm, seems to work for me:
host$ podman run -it ghcr.io/openwrt/imagebuilder:x86-64-24.10.1
Then inside the container:
$ make -j$(nproc) image ROOTFS_PARTSIZE="512" PACKAGES=libnl-tiny1
...
Installing packages...
Installing libc (1.2.5-r4) to root...
Installing libgcc1 (13.3.0-r4) to root...
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/x86/64/packages/libgcc1_13.3.0-r4_x86_64.ipk
Configuring libgcc1.
Configuring libc.
Installing kernel (6.6.86~af351158cfb5febf5155a3aa53785982-r1) to root...
Configuring kernel.
Installing libnl-tiny1 (2025.03.19~c0df580a-r1) to root...
Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/x86_64/base/libnl-tiny1_2025.03.19~c0df580a-r1_x86_64.ipk
...
Configuring kmod-nf-flow.
Configuring libnl-tiny1.
Configuring kmod-lib-crc-ccitt.
...
... more junk until it finishes successfully ...
Is the container's feeds list current and complete?
$ cat repositories.conf
## Remote package repositories
src/gz openwrt_core https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/x86/64/packages
src/gz openwrt_base https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/x86_64/base
src/gz openwrt_kmods https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/x86/64/kmods/6.6.86-1-af351158cfb5febf5155a3aa53785982
src/gz openwrt_luci https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/x86_64/luci
src/gz openwrt_packages https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/x86_64/packages
src/gz openwrt_routing https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/x86_64/routing
src/gz openwrt_telephony https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/x86_64/telephony
## This is the local package repository, do not remove!
src imagebuilder file:packages
option check_signature