containertool adds application to the wrong end of the layer stack #57
Labels
area/interoperability
Improvements to compatibility with other systems.
kind/bug
Something isn't working
containertool
currently adds the app layer to the beginning of the layer stack array in the manifest. This results in the app layer being the first to be unpacked, with the others stacked on top. We can show this by adding a plain text file as the executable. If we stack another layer on top with a file of the same name, it should replace the underlying one but it does not:Currently
containertool
is only used to add the application binary to the application layer. This bug will only cause a problem if the base layer adds a binary at the same path, because this will override the application.This bug probably arose because the specification for the
rootfs.diff_ids
field of the image configuration defines the layers as being "in order from first to last", which could be read ambiguously: https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/config.md?plain=1#L220-L222The specification for the
manifest.layers
field is much more explicit about the ordering: https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/fbb4662eb53b80bd38f7597406cf1211317768f0/manifest.md?plain=1#L70-L71The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: