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ARG support in COPY

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Description

Description

Steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. docker build --build-arg IMAGE_BUILDER_NAME=node-builder-ms-xxxx --file Dockerfile/Dockerfile .

Describe the results you received:
invalid from flag value ${IMAGE_BUILDER_NAME}: invalid reference format: repository name must be lowercase

Describe the results you expected:
Successfully built fe978fd298a

Output of docker version:

Client:
 Version:	18.03.0-ce
 API version:	1.37
 Go version:	go1.9.4
 Git commit:	0520e24
 Built:	Wed Mar 21 23:06:22 2018
 OS/Arch:	darwin/amd64
 Experimental:	false
 Orchestrator:	swarm

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:	18.03.0-ce
  API version:	1.37 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:	go1.9.4
  Git commit:	0520e24
  Built:	Wed Mar 21 23:14:32 2018
  OS/Arch:	linux/amd64
  Experimental:	true

Output of docker info:

Containers: 0
 Running: 0
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 0
Images: 38
Server Version: 18.03.0-ce
Storage Driver: overlay2
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Supports d_type: true
 Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
 Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: cfd04396dc68220d1cecbe686a6cc3aa5ce3667c
runc version: 4fc53a81fb7c994640722ac585fa9ca548971871
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.9.87-linuxkit-aufs
Operating System: Docker for Mac
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 3.855GiB
Name: linuxkit-025000000001
ID: MWH6:QH5X:TT3F:ITI2:2C22:XQN3:2E3H:M4GK:HAZH:
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
HTTP Proxy: docker.for.mac.http.internal:3128
HTTPS Proxy: docker.for.mac.http.internal:3129
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: true
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false```

**Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc.):**

FROM node:8-alpine
ARG IMAGE_BUILDER_NAME
COPY --from=${IMAGE_BUILDER_NAME} /src/dist /app/dist

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Research direction

Reproduce the reported build with Dockerfile/Dockerfile and the supplied docker build command, then trace how COPY --from handles the ARG value. Confirm the expected behavior with a focused build or regression test covering IMAGE_BUILDER_NAME, and verify that the example builds successfully.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker, dockerfile, go
Domain
build-system, devops
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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