Builder: print relative path if COPY/ADD source path was not found

Before this change, the error returned to the user would include the physical
path inside the tmp dir on the daemon host. These paths should be considered
an implementation detail, and provide no value to the user. Printing the tmp
path can confuse users, and will be even more confusing if the daemon is running
remotely (or in a VM, such as on Docker Desktop), in which case the path in the
error message does not exist on the local machine;

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nCOPY /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build -f- .

    Sending build context to Docker daemon   1.57kB
    Step 1/2 : FROM busybox
     ---> 1c35c4412082
    Step 2/2 : COPY /some/non-existing/file.txt .
    COPY failed: stat /var/lib/docker/tmp/docker-builder405687992/some/non-existing/file.txt: no such file or directory

When copying files from an image or a build stage, using `--from`, the error
is similarly confusing:

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nCOPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build -f- .
    Sending build context to Docker daemon  4.671kB
    Step 1/2 : FROM busybox
     ---> 018c9d7b792b
    Step 2/2 : COPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt .
    COPY failed: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ef34239c80526c779b7afaeaedbf11c1b201d7f7681d45613102c4541da0e156/merged/some/non-existing/file.txt: no such file or directory

This patch updates the error messages to be more user-friendly. Changes are slightly
different, depending on if the source was a local path, or an image (or build-stage),
using `--from`.

If `--from` is used, only the path is updated, and we print the relative path
instead of the full path;

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nCOPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build -f- .
    Sending build context to Docker daemon  1.583kB
    Step 1/2 : FROM busybox
     ---> 018c9d7b792b
    Step 2/2 : COPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt .
    COPY failed: stat some/non-existing/file.txt: file does not exist

In other cases, additional information is added to mention "build context" and
".dockerignore", which could provide the user some hints to find the problem:

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nCOPY /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build -f- .
    Sending build context to Docker daemon  1.583kB
    Step 1/2 : FROM busybox
     ---> 018c9d7b792b
    Step 2/2 : COPY /some/non-existing/file.txt .
    COPY failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat some/non-existing/file.txt: file does not exist

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nADD /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 docker build -f- .
    Sending build context to Docker daemon  1.583kB
    Step 1/2 : FROM busybox
     ---> 018c9d7b792b
    Step 2/2 : ADD /some/non-existing/file.txt .
    ADD failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat some/non-existing/file.txt: file does not exist

This patch only improves the error for the classic builder. Similar changes could
be made for BuildKit, which produces equally, or even more confusing errors;

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nCOPY /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -f- .
    [+] Building 1.2s (6/6) FINISHED
     => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                 0.0s
     => => transferring dockerfile: 85B                                  0.0s
     => [internal] load .dockerignore                                    0.0s
     => => transferring context: 2B                                      0.0s
     => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/busybox:latest    1.2s
     => [internal] load build context                                    0.0s
     => => transferring context: 2B                                      0.0s
     => CACHED [1/2] FROM docker.io/library/busybox@sha256:4f47c01...    0.0s
     => ERROR [2/2] COPY /some/non-existing/file.txt .                   0.0s
    ------
     > [2/2] COPY /some/non-existing/file.txt .:
    ------
    failed to compute cache key: failed to walk /var/lib/docker/tmp/buildkit-mount181923793/some/non-existing:
    lstat /var/lib/docker/tmp/buildkit-mount181923793/some/non-existing: no such file or directory

    echo -e "FROM busybox\nCOPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt ." | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -f- .
    [+] Building 2.5s (6/6) FINISHED
     => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                        0.0s
     => => transferring dockerfile: 100B                                        0.0s
     => [internal] load .dockerignore                                           0.0s
     => => transferring context: 2B                                             0.0s
     => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/busybox:latest           1.2s
     => FROM docker.io/library/busybox:latest                                   1.2s
     => => resolve docker.io/library/busybox:latest                             1.2s
     => CACHED [stage-0 1/2] FROM docker.io/library/busybox@sha256:4f47c01...   0.0s
     => ERROR [stage-0 2/2] COPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt .   0.0s
    ------
     > [stage-0 2/2] COPY --from=busybox /some/non-existing/file.txt .:
    ------
    failed to compute cache key: failed to walk /var/lib/docker/overlay2/2a796d91e46fc038648c6010f062bdfd612ee62b0e8fe77bc632688e3fba32d9/merged/some/non-existing:
    lstat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/2a796d91e46fc038648c6010f062bdfd612ee62b0e8fe77bc632688e3fba32d9/merged/some/non-existing: no such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>

builder/dockerfile/copy.go

@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ func (o *copier) calcCopyInfo(origPath string, allowWildcards bool) ([]copyInfo,
 	// Deal with the single file case
 	copyInfo, err := copyInfoForFile(o.source, origPath)
 	switch {
+	case imageSource == nil && errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist):
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore")
 	case err != nil:
 		return nil, err
 	case copyInfo.hash != "":
@@ -315,6 +317,10 @@ func (o *copier) copyWithWildcards(origPath string) ([]copyInfo, error) {
 func copyInfoForFile(source builder.Source, path string) (copyInfo, error) {
 	fi, err := remotecontext.StatAt(source, path)
 	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+			// return the relative path in the error, which is more user-friendly than the full path to the tmp-dir
+			return copyInfo{}, errors.WithStack(&os.PathError{Op: "stat", Path: path, Err: os.ErrNotExist})
+		}
 		return copyInfo{}, err
 	}
 

integration-cli/docker_cli_build_test.go

@@ -2189,18 +2189,13 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestBuildEntrypointRunCleanup(c *testing.T) {
 
 func (s *DockerSuite) TestBuildAddFileNotFound(c *testing.T) {
 	name := "testbuildaddnotfound"
-	expected := "foo: no such file or directory"
-
-	if testEnv.OSType == "windows" {
-		expected = "foo: The system cannot find the file specified"
-	}
 
 	buildImage(name, build.WithBuildContext(c,
 		build.WithFile("Dockerfile", `FROM `+minimalBaseImage()+`
         ADD foo /usr/local/bar`),
 		build.WithFile("bar", "hello"))).Assert(c, icmd.Expected{
 		ExitCode: 1,
-		Err:      expected,
+		Err:      "stat foo: file does not exist",
 	})
 }