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BioContainers specifications
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why specifying base image in labels? #76

Closed osallou closed 7 years ago

osallou commented 7 years ago

spec specifies:

base image  The original image where the software has been built    base image: biodckr/biodocker

in Dockerfile LABEL elements.

This base image is the FROM element, why duplicating the information?

prvst commented 7 years ago

The LABEL information can be accessed from outside the container in a programatically way, it can be used to access the metadata from the container. I'm not sure the same is true for other tags like the FROM tag.