crane: Deleting image by tag not working

[iFrozenPhoenix]

Describe the bug

Deleting a tag, i.e. the manifest and the blob, is not working when using crane delete registry.domain/repo/image:tag

To Reproduce

crane delete registry.domain/repo/image:tag

Expected behavior

when the delete command is specified with a tag instead of a digest the tag is automatically resolved to the digest value and the delete command is executed with the digest.

Additional context

Add any other context about the problem here.
Registry: Distribution

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[megamorf]

I'm also facing this issue. I ran crane ls, did some grep magic and piped the output to xargs ... | xargs -I % crane delete "${REGISTRY}/${NAMESPACE}/${PROJECT}:%" but get invalid checksum digest format.

The help text does not indicate that a digest is expected and just like OP said I'd expect crane to resolve the tag accordingly:

▶ crane delete --help
Delete an image reference from its registry

Usage:
  crane delete IMAGE [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for delete

Global Flags:
      --allow-nondistributable-artifacts   Allow pushing non-distributable (foreign) layers
      --insecure                           Allow image references to be fetched without TLS
      --platform platform                  Specifies the platform in the form os/arch[/variant][:osversion] (e.g. linux/amd64). (default all)
  -v, --verbose                            Enable debug logs

[sankalp-khare]

@iFrozenPhoenix could you share the output when you try this? thanks!

[iFrozenPhoenix]

@sankalp-khare the error was something that the hash couldn't be found. Actually I can't reproduce it anymore.
Deleting a tag is now actually working. Can't say if it was a problem of the registry (distributon) or crane.

[megamorf]

@sankalp-khare the error was something that the hash couldn't be found. Actually I can't reproduce it anymore.
Deleting a tag is now actually working. Can't say if it was a problem of the registry (distributon) or crane.

Can you add the crane version that you tested with so that I can check as well :-)

[iFrozenPhoenix]

Sure, 0.19.0

[testwill]

crane delete x.x.x.x::443/my_test/ubuntu18.04:php7.2.10 --insecure

goroutine 9 [running]:
runtime/debug.Stack()
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:24 +0x65
runtime/debug.PrintStack()
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:16 +0x19
github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport.pickFromMultipleChallenges({0xc000014978, 0x1, 0x9a4fe6?})
/home/jack/code/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport/ping.go:174 +0x71
github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport.pingSingle({0xa7c2a8?, 0xc00007c690}, {0x0?, {0xc000030450?, 0x0?}}, {0xa77f60, 0xc00003cb00}, {0x9a569d, 0x5})
/home/jack/code/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport/ping.go:90 +0x359
github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport.pingParallel.func1({0xa7c2a8?, 0xc00007c690?}, {0x9a569d, 0x5})
/home/jack/code/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport/ping.go:122 +0x7e
created by github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport.pingParallel
/home/jack/code/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/remote/transport/ping.go:136 +0x2d2
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Error: DELETE https://x.x.x.x:443/v2/my_test/ubuntu18.04/manifests/php7.2.10: UNSUPPORTED: unsupported digest php7.2.10: invalid checksum digest format

[testwill]

v0.19.1

[testwill]

harbor