Bootc throws missing metadata error

[hmrks]

Hi!

I have used the startingpoint repository to create a custom image. Everything seems to work perfectly fine, however when I run sudo bootc status, I get the following error message:

ERROR Reading manifest data from commit: Missing ostree.manifest-digest metadata on merge commit

Note that I haven't changed anything in the GitHub Actions pipeline, or the base image. I have checked the bootc docs, and it seems that once I have a bootc compatible base image (which I assume ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main is), I can just build on top of that without any special requirements.

Any idea what could cause this issue or how I can further debug this? I am using a private repository for my image so I can not link it.

[xynydev]

Hmm, maybe we have some missing metadata. I tried running the command too and got the same error. Can't find much info in bootc docs. Should probably check what metadata main adds that this repo doesn't.

[xynydev]

I'm not actively working on this yet, but here's some of the labels in other ublue images versus those based on startingpoint. (gathered using skopeo inspect docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:latest | jq -r '.Labels')

ublue:

{
  "io.artifacthub.package.logo-url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/120078124?s=200&v=4",
  "io.artifacthub.package.readme-url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ublue-os/bluefin/bluefin/README.md",
  "io.buildah.version": "1.23.1",
  "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2024-02-01T16:44:24.808Z",
  "org.opencontainers.image.description": "An interpretation of the Ubuntu spirit built on Fedora technology",
  "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "Apache-2.0",
  "org.opencontainers.image.revision": "ce2e723eb1de4cfcd50bfbae6231ee9be44b1ecc",
  "org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin",
  "org.opencontainers.image.title": "bluefin",
  "org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin",
  "org.opencontainers.image.version": "39.20240131.0",
  "ostree.bootable": "true",
  "ostree.commit": "cdeaa9aab919efee451b85082ccd35cc71cd0ec2059ec69c597cc12d31216d54",
  "ostree.final-diffid": "sha256:12787d84fa137cd5649a9005efe98ec9d05ea46245fdc50aecb7dd007f2035b1",
  "ostree.linux": "6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64",
  "quay.expires-after": "4w",
  "rpmostree.inputhash": "8dfd8be0779ec9c37d734d792ee3fee1242a6e60d1a89a9876784c3ca8f6c1b3",
  "version": "39.20240131.0"
}

{
  "io.artifacthub.package.logo-url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/120078124?s=200&v=4",
  "io.artifacthub.package.readme-url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ublue-os/main/main/README.md",
  "io.buildah.version": "1.23.1",
  "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2024-01-31T23:51:20.512Z",
  "org.opencontainers.image.description": "A base Universal Blue silverblue image with batteries included",
  "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "Apache-2.0",
  "org.opencontainers.image.revision": "db0cf2e4328c1f1e5e161f47d98f945b9139d4fd",
  "org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/ublue-os/main",
  "org.opencontainers.image.title": "silverblue-main",
  "org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/ublue-os/main",
  "org.opencontainers.image.version": "39.20240131.0",
  "ostree.bootable": "true",
  "ostree.commit": "cdeaa9aab919efee451b85082ccd35cc71cd0ec2059ec69c597cc12d31216d54",
  "ostree.final-diffid": "sha256:12787d84fa137cd5649a9005efe98ec9d05ea46245fdc50aecb7dd007f2035b1",
  "ostree.linux": "6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64",
  "quay.expires-after": "4w",
  "rpmostree.inputhash": "8dfd8be0779ec9c37d734d792ee3fee1242a6e60d1a89a9876784c3ca8f6c1b3",
  "version": "39.20240131.0"
}

startingpoint:

{
  "io.artifacthub.package.logo-url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/120078124?s=200&v=4",
  "io.artifacthub.package.readme-url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ublue-os/startingpoint/main/README.md",
  "io.buildah.version": "1.23.1",
  "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2024-02-02T01:39:18.308Z",
  "org.opencontainers.image.description": "Silverblue main with some hardening applied",
  "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "Apache-2.0",
  "org.opencontainers.image.revision": "05723949f91b736a3709f80e61b18f7d359403b3",
  "org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue",
  "org.opencontainers.image.title": "silverblue-main-hardened",
  "org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue",
  "org.opencontainers.image.version": "39.20240131.0",
  "ostree.bootable": "true",
  "ostree.commit": "cdeaa9aab919efee451b85082ccd35cc71cd0ec2059ec69c597cc12d31216d54",
  "ostree.final-diffid": "sha256:12787d84fa137cd5649a9005efe98ec9d05ea46245fdc50aecb7dd007f2035b1",
  "ostree.linux": "6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64",
  "quay.expires-after": "4w",
  "rpmostree.inputhash": "8dfd8be0779ec9c37d734d792ee3fee1242a6e60d1a89a9876784c3ca8f6c1b3",
  "version": "39.20240131.0"

bluebuild:

{
  "io.artifacthub.package.logo-url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/120078124?s=200&v=4",
  "io.artifacthub.package.readme-url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ublue-os/startingpoint/main/README.md",
  "io.buildah.version": "1.23.1",
  "org.opencontainers.image.created": "2024-01-31T04:00:43.317Z",
  "org.opencontainers.image.description": "My personal uBlue image. Make your own! https://ublue.it/making-your-own/",
  "org.opencontainers.image.licenses": "Apache-2.0",
  "org.opencontainers.image.revision": "83360824f65636507127d86687d25f8f7943e0e0",
  "org.opencontainers.image.source": "https://github.com/ublue-os/nvidia",
  "org.opencontainers.image.title": "linuxyz",
  "org.opencontainers.image.url": "https://github.com/ublue-os/nvidia",
  "org.opencontainers.image.version": "latest",
  "ostree.bootable": "true",
  "ostree.commit": "fc236f014fb8795fdc375411be0f46051c60d2ef699adadf3d19aa14c05dd514",
  "ostree.final-diffid": "sha256:12787d84fa137cd5649a9005efe98ec9d05ea46245fdc50aecb7dd007f2035b1",
  "ostree.linux": "6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64",
  "quay.expires-after": "4w",
  "rpmostree.inputhash": "b344a86ad2ef79cdd140b1ed9917c9646a76d2f68ab3e89e9c3ab9d5c70025bf",
  "version": "39.20240130.0"
}

[gmpinder]

This should be fixed in blue-build/cli#37 for the cli tool

[xynydev]

This should be fixed in blue-build/cli#37 for the cli tool

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that PR only makes the metadata be on the same level as startingpoint, right?

[gmpinder]

Yes. Did I misunderstand the problem?

[xynydev]

I'm not actually sure what the problem is, but it's something related to image metadata and not tags.

[gmpinder]

I'm not actually sure what the problem is, but it's something related to image metadata and not tags.

Oh in that PR I removed the label that was overriding the version label. This way we get that label from the source image. After reading again it seems the issue is a missing label for ostree instead