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[BUG] Unhelpful warning "No services to build" with docker compose up #13484

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@snowdroppe

Description

Commit c89b8a2 added a warning log "No services to build" when build is run without any services to build.

This also affects docker compose up even if no build directive exists within docker-compose.yml. Running up without the image present in the platform cache (and pull_policy: missing, which is default if unset), results in a pull from the image directive (if possible) and starts the container(s).

Subsequent runs of up with a cached image result in the unhelpful (albeit accurate) warning message "WARN[0000] No services to build".

I imagine this behaviour is due to compose running build as a fallback to pull, even if the image is cached and --buildnot specified.

Running docker compose up --no-build results in no warning as expected, but I would expect this to be default behaviour if --build is not specified and no build directive exists.

Obviously, pre 5.0 behaviour had no such warning (even if the internal calls to build were identical).

Steps To Reproduce

docker-compose.yml:

services:
app:
image: hello-world:latest
  1. docker compose up (assuming the image is not cached)
root@host /srv/myapp # docker compose up
[+] up 0/2
[+] up 4/4ello-world:latest [⠀] Pulling 2.0s
✔ Image hello-world:latest Pulled 2.1s
✔ 17eec7bbc9d7 Pull complete 0.5s
✔ Network myapp_default Created 0.0s
✔ Container myapp-app-1 Created 0.0s
Attaching to app-1
app-1 |
app-1 | Hello from Docker!
app-1 | This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
...
  1. docker compose up (assuming the image is cached)
root@host /srv/myapp # docker compose up
WARN[0000] No services to build
Attaching to app-1
app-1 |
app-1 | Hello from Docker!
app-1 | This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
...

Compose Version

Docker Compose version 5.0.1

Docker Environment

Client:
Version: 29.1.3
Context: default
Debug Mode: false
Plugins:
compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
Version: 5.0.1
Path: /usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
Server:
Containers: 1
Running: 1
Paused: 0
Stopped: 0
Images: 1
Server Version: 29.1.3
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Using metacopy: true
Native Overlay Diff: false
userxattr: false
Logging Driver: local
Cgroup Driver: systemd
Cgroup Version: 2
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
CDI spec directories:
/etc/cdi
/var/run/cdi
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 75cb2b7193e4e490e9fbdc236c0e811ccaba3376.m
runc version:
init version: de40ad0
Security Options:
seccomp
Profile: builtin
cgroupns
Kernel Version: 6.16.8-arch1-1
Operating System: Arch Linux
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 7.749GiB
Name: host
ID: affaf1ab-b8ff-4f55-8bf3-cd402c21bad6
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode: false
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
::1/128
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false
Firewall Backend: iptables

Anything else?

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