Brandon Mitchell

How would containerd decide which artifact/image is preferred when multiple options exist in an index/manifest list (e.g. between a native image and wasi)?

> > How would containerd decide which artifact/image is preferred when multiple options exist in an index/manifest list (e.g. between a native image and wasi)? > > @sudo-bmitch did you...

Hi @arewm. I believe it's possible to have a nested index today with the current specs. What is the specific change you are looking for from the spec? Is it...

There's no concept of a cross-repository descriptor in OCI, every descriptor references content in the same repository. Trying to change that is likely to face a lot of resistance due...

Most are probably using Purl to identify the image. Trying to identify the content is problematic since one image can contain lots of components. That's better handled by attaching an...

> Would like to get feedback if we should just add this to pull manifest and blobs - as per @sudo-bmitch > > https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/pull/398#issuecomment-1492513829 > > > http redirect status...

Calling them rules implies there's a spec or policy that applies to every registry. We've avoided defining anything in the OCI spec, possibly to an extreme, and delegated that to...

I attempted to clarify that references are specific to a repository, rather than anything in a registry, but that hasn't been merged and I'm not sure what will unblock it....

Typically, registries will keep manifests that are tagged and child objects of those manifests, recursively (manifests listed in an index, and blobs listed in an image). Exceptions I can think...

> As an example of a point where the current state of affairs seems to become problematic to me, from @sudo-bmitch: > > > Most registries will not delete a...