Retrieving "unmangled" manifests for digest consistency?

[MathiasPius]

Is there a way to fetch raw manifests without deserializing them immediately?

When retrieving manifests, they're automatically deserialized into Rust structures which is very handy, but unfortunately this also means that if you intend to push the manifest elsewhere your re-serialized version of the content might not match the digest provided by the upstream.

This problem can be worked around by simply not providing an expected digest when pushing to containerd for example, but this feels like a bit of a hack, since the changes to the underlying manifest (if any) are purely cosmetic, and the content and digest are in fact inconsistent. Removing the expected digest simply allows the push to go through, but the final object will still have a different digest.

[thomastaylor312]

I don't think there is a way to do this now, but this would be a great feature to add. I'll label accordingly

[thomastaylor312]

To be clear, we have a push_manifest_raw and we should just have a pull_manifest_raw