Re: [PATCH for-11.1] gitlab: disable provenance attestations to work around CI bug

Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:40:07 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.qemu
Message-ID	<20260804174007.GA488200@fedora>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 12:54:14PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> QEMU's CI pipeline involves building container images that will be used
> to run builds and tests. A recent Docker change triggered the following
> error:
> 
>   $ docker push "$TAG"
>   ...
>   error from registry: blob unknown to registry - sha256:4401f6f779caf8841cafd5f483e642fcac56a23a4e4a59523231e101c890dad9
> 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/15701875927#L2372
> 
> This happens because Docker now pushes out-of-order and the GitLab
> Container Registry rejects due to an unknown reference:
> https://forum.gitlab.com/t/started-yesterday-docker-push-error-from-registry-blob-unknown-to-registry/134733/5
> 
> It is unclear at this point whether GitLab will modify the behavior of
> Container Registry or whether Docker will ship a fix.
> 
> The current workaround is to disable the provenance attestation that is
> involved in this issue. QEMU's CI pipeline container images are used
> internally for testing and are not widely distributed. Provenance
> attestation can be disabled as there are no external consumers of these
> images. Expect to revert this commit in the future when GitLab or Docker
> have released their own fixes.
> 
> Cc: Alex Bennée <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
> ---
> Note that this is an urgent patch so that the CI will pass again and I
> can tag v11.1.0-rc3 later today. Currently it is failing due to this
> issue!
> 
>  .gitlab-ci.d/container-template.yml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, applied to my staging tree:
https://gitlab.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/staging

Stefan

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