diff --git a/test/system/800-config.bats b/test/system/800-config.bats
index 9c7973a394..b5d79c4854 100644
--- a/test/system/800-config.bats
+++ b/test/system/800-config.bats
@@ -255,17 +255,17 @@ EOF
     skip_if_remote "containers.conf does not effect client side of --remote"
 
     CONTAINERS_CONF=/dev/null run_podman push --help
-    assert "$output" =~ "--compression-format string.*compression format to use \(default \"gzip\"\)" "containers.conf should set default to gzip"
+    assert "$output" =~ "--compression-format string.*compression format to use \(default \"zstd:chunked\"\)"
     assert "$output" !~ "compression level to use \(default" "containers.conf should not set default compressionlevel"
 
     conf_tmp="$PODMAN_TMPDIR/containers.conf"
     cat >$conf_tmp <<EOF
 [engine]
-compression_format="zstd:chunked"
+compression_format="zstd"
 compression_level=1
 EOF
     CONTAINERS_CONF="$conf_tmp" run_podman push --help
-    assert "$output" =~ "--compression-format string.*compression format to use \(default \"zstd:chunked\"\)" "containers.conf should set default to zstd:chunked"
+    assert "$output" =~ "--compression-format string.*compression format to use \(default \"zstd\"\)"
     assert "$output" =~ "--compression-level int.*compression level to use \(default 1\)" "containers.conf should set default compressionlevel to 1"
 }