diff --git a/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/fix_imageset_checks.patch b/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/fix_imageset_checks.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..245d86a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/fix_imageset_checks.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From d358aa98f1c82171af5afe815909a6d8ade0168a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Lucian Petrut <lpetrut@cloudbasesolutions.com>
+Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:58:24 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] quick hack: disable image set check
+
+Calico currently checks if the image set that it received matches
+the upstream images, which prevents us from using custom images.
+
+This quick hack will just ignore unknown images. However, we should
+use the Installation spec to parse the images, just like GetReference
+does.
+---
+ pkg/controller/utils/imageset/imageset.go | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/pkg/controller/utils/imageset/imageset.go b/pkg/controller/utils/imageset/imageset.go
+index a825ddb9..b21aa693 100644
+--- a/pkg/controller/utils/imageset/imageset.go
++++ b/pkg/controller/utils/imageset/imageset.go
+@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ func ValidateImageSet(is *operator.ImageSet) error {
+                }
+        }
+
+-       if len(unknownImages) == 0 && len(invalidDigests) == 0 {
++       if len(invalidDigests) == 0 {
+                return nil
+        }
+
+--
+2.43.0
diff --git a/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/rockcraft.yaml b/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/rockcraft.yaml
index 00bb67b..d8bc734 100644
--- a/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/rockcraft.yaml
+++ b/tigera-operator/v1.34.0/rockcraft.yaml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ parts:
       - PACKAGE_NAME: github.com/tigera/operator
     override-build: |
       export EMAIL=root@localhost
+      git am --ignore-whitespace $CRAFT_PROJECT_DIR/fix_imageset_checks.patch
 
       LDFLAGS="-X ${PACKAGE_NAME}/version.VERSION=${GIT_VERSION} -s -w"