Podman fails to pull image

[mprasil]

Issue Description

Last few gitlab-runner images fail to pull:

podman pull gitlab/gitlab-runner:alpine3.18-0bb36a02
Trying to pull docker.io/gitlab/gitlab-runner:alpine3.18-0bb36a02...
Error: copying system image from manifest list: Unexpectedly received a manifest list instead of a manifest for a single image

Note that there is something specific about these that makes podman fail, older versions of gitlab-runner pull fine:

# this works as expected
podman pull gitlab/gitlab-runner:alpine-v17.7.1

All of the above images pull with docker just fine.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. podman pull gitlab/gitlab-runner:alpine3.18-0bb36a02

Describe the results you received

Got the error:

Error: copying system image from manifest list: Unexpectedly received a manifest list instead of a manifest for a single image

Describe the results you expected

Image pulls as usual.

podman info output

I've been able to reproduce this with many versions of podman including this one:


Client:       Podman Engine
Version:      5.3.1
API Version:  5.3.1
Go Version:   go1.23.3
Built:        Thu Nov 21 00:00:00 2024
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

None

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Note that this is not specific to Docker hub, pulling the same image from gitlab registry also fails:

podman pull registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner:alpine-0bb36a02
Trying to pull registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner:alpine-0bb36a02...
Error: copying system image from manifest list: Unexpectedly received a manifest list instead of a manifest for a single image

Additional information

Podman 5.2.3 also has this issue.