containers / containers/podman-compose
--podman-args passed arguments to subcommand instead of global as advertized
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Description
**Describe the bug**
Args after --podman-args will be passed to subcommand (e.g. images) instead of global.
**To Reproduce**
`podman-compose --podman-args="--connection remote-hostname" images`
**Expected behavior**
Correct results on the images for containers on the remote server
**Actual behavior**
Errored out
**Output**
```
$ podman-compose --version
podman-compose version 1.5.0
podman version 4.9.3
```
```
$ podman-compose --podman-args="--connection remote-hostname" images
...
raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(p.returncode, " ".join(cmd_ls), stderr_data)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'podman images --connection remote-hostname --format table my_container {{.Repository}} {{.Tag}} {{.ID}} {{.Size}} -n my_image:latest' returned non-zero exit status 125.
```
As you can see, the command generated is :
`podman images --connection remote-hostname --format table my_container {{.Repository}} {{.Tag}} {{.ID}} {{.Size}} -n my_image:latest`
The `--connection remote-hostname` is added after the `images` subcommand instead of right after `podman`.
In contrast, if I use the raw podman command with the correct order of the args, the results are as expected:
```
$ podman --connection remote-hostname images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
docker.io/library/busybox latest beae173ccac6 3 years ago 1.46 MB
```
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the issue with `podman-compose --podman-args="--connection remote-hostname" images`, then trace argument parsing and command construction for `--podman-args`. Done means the generated command places the connection argument before `images` and the remote image listing succeeds.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100