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Docker images used to be, essentially, a linked list of layers. Each layer would have a tarball and a json document pointing to its parent, and the image pointed to the top layer: imageA ----> layerA | v layerB | v layerC The current image spec changed this format to where the Image defined the order and set of layers: imageA ---> layerA |--> layerB `--> layerC For backwards compatibility, docker produces images which follow both specs: layers point to parents, and images also point to the entire list: imageA ---> layerA | | | v |--> layerB | | | v `--> layerC This is nice for tooling which supported the older version and never updated to support the newer format. Our `buildImage` code only supported the old version, so in order for `buildImage` to properly generate an image based on another image with `fromImage`, the parent image's layers must fully support the old mechanism. This is not a problem in general, but is a problem with `buildLayeredImage`. `buildLayeredImage` creates images with newer image spec, because individual store paths don't have a guaranteed parent layer. Including a specific parent ID in the layer's json makes the output less likely to cache hit when published or pulled. This means until now, `buildLayeredImage` could not be the input to `buildImage`. The changes in this PR change `buildImage` to only use the layer's manifest when locating parent IDs. This does break buildImage on extremely old Docker images, though I do wonder how many of these exist. This work has been sponsored by Target. |
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