Running on Windows from different drive than C:\

[malkia]

(Copied verbatim from https://github.com/malkia/oci/tree/ec07528e1bf01c23650aa2f9915c2c102cffb986)

• Running from drive different than your %USERPROFILE% one (typically C:), for example on D:\ would try to read \Users\<username>\.docker\config.json (I've replaced my username with <username> below)

    ERROR: <builtin>: fetching oci_alias rule //:rules_oci~1.4.3~oci~distroless_base: Traceback (most recent call last):
            File "C:/users/<username>/_bazel_<username>/roe7hhvn/external/rules_oci~1.4.3/oci/private/pull.bzl", line 472, column 36, in _oci_alias_impl
                    downloader = _create_downloader(rctx)
            File "C:/users/<username>/_bazel_<username>/roe7hhvn/external/rules_oci~1.4.3/oci/private/pull.bzl", line 318, column 40, in _create_downloader
                    "config": _get_auth_config_path(rctx),
            File "C:/users/<username>/_bazel_<username>/roe7hhvn/external/rules_oci~1.4.3/oci/private/pull.bzl", line 312, column 37, in _get_auth_config_path
                    return json.decode(rctx.read(path))
    Error in read: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \Users\<username>\.docker\config.json (The system cannot find the path specified)
    ERROR: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \Users\<username>\.docker\config.json (The system cannot find the path specified)
  

• Workaround

  • Not best workaround, but setting DOCKER_CONFIG to some value in .bazelrc "fixes" this

    common --repo_env=DOCKER_CONFIG=does_not_matter
    

  • It reports now:

    WARNING: Could not find the `$HOME/.docker/config.json` and `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/containers/auth.json` file. Running one of `podman login`, `docker login`, `crane login` may help.