diff --git a/integration/copy_test.go b/integration/copy_test.go
index 320b2e8c..d2e979ba 100644
--- a/integration/copy_test.go
+++ b/integration/copy_test.go
@@ -154,7 +154,10 @@ func (s *CopySuite) TestCopySimple(c *check.C) {
 	// docker v2s2 -> OCI image layout without image name
 	ociDest = "busybox-latest-noimage"
 	defer os.RemoveAll(ociDest)
-	assertSkopeoFails(c, ".*Error initializing destination oci:busybox-latest-noimage:: cannot save image with empty reference name.*", "copy", "docker://busybox:latest", "oci:"+ociDest)
+	assertSkopeoSucceeds(c, "", "copy", "docker://busybox:latest", "oci:"+ociDest)
+	_, err = os.Stat(ociDest)
+	c.Assert(err, check.IsNil)
+
 }
 
 // Check whether dir: images in dir1 and dir2 are equal, ignoring schema1 signatures.
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go
index ff149025..c88aea3b 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ type archiveImageDestination struct {
 }
 
 func newImageDestination(sys *types.SystemContext, ref archiveReference) (types.ImageDestination, error) {
-	if ref.destinationRef == nil {
-		return nil, errors.Errorf("docker-archive: destination reference not supplied (must be of form <path>:<reference:tag>)")
-	}
-
 	// ref.path can be either a pipe or a regular file
 	// in the case of a pipe, we require that we can open it for write
 	// in the case of a regular file, we don't want to overwrite any pre-existing file
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/transport.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/transport.go
index f8cb77c0..f345b343 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/transport.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/transport.go
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ func (t archiveTransport) ValidatePolicyConfigurationScope(scope string) error {
 
 // archiveReference is an ImageReference for Docker images.
 type archiveReference struct {
-	destinationRef reference.NamedTagged // only used for destinations
+	// only used for destinations
+	// archiveReference.destinationRef is optional and can be nil for destinations as well.
+	destinationRef reference.NamedTagged
 	path           string
 }
 
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/tarfile/dest.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/tarfile/dest.go
index 42954c55..b6791af9 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/tarfile/dest.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/tarfile/dest.go
@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ import (
 
 // Destination is a partial implementation of types.ImageDestination for writing to an io.Writer.
 type Destination struct {
-	writer    io.Writer
-	tar       *tar.Writer
-	reference reference.NamedTagged
-	repoTags  []reference.NamedTagged
+	writer   io.Writer
+	tar      *tar.Writer
+	repoTags []reference.NamedTagged
 	// Other state.
 	blobs  map[digest.Digest]types.BlobInfo // list of already-sent blobs
 	config []byte
@@ -34,12 +33,15 @@ type Destination struct {
 
 // NewDestination returns a tarfile.Destination for the specified io.Writer.
 func NewDestination(dest io.Writer, ref reference.NamedTagged) *Destination {
+	repoTags := []reference.NamedTagged{}
+	if ref != nil {
+		repoTags = append(repoTags, ref)
+	}
 	return &Destination{
-		writer:    dest,
-		tar:       tar.NewWriter(dest),
-		reference: ref,
-		repoTags:  []reference.NamedTagged{ref},
-		blobs:     make(map[digest.Digest]types.BlobInfo),
+		writer:   dest,
+		tar:      tar.NewWriter(dest),
+		repoTags: repoTags,
+		blobs:    make(map[digest.Digest]types.BlobInfo),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -168,8 +170,15 @@ func (d *Destination) ReapplyBlob(ctx context.Context, info types.BlobInfo) (typ
 }
 
 func (d *Destination) createRepositoriesFile(rootLayerID string) error {
-	repositories := map[string]map[string]string{
-		d.reference.Name(): {d.reference.Tag(): rootLayerID}}
+	repositories := map[string]map[string]string{}
+	for _, repoTag := range d.repoTags {
+		if val, ok := repositories[repoTag.Name()]; ok {
+			val[repoTag.Tag()] = rootLayerID
+		} else {
+			repositories[repoTag.Name()] = map[string]string{repoTag.Tag(): rootLayerID}
+		}
+	}
+
 	b, err := json.Marshal(repositories)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "Error marshaling repositories")
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_dest.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_dest.go
index e0761c69..a1e27b5d 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_dest.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_dest.go
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ type ociImageDestination struct {
 
 // newImageDestination returns an ImageDestination for writing to an existing directory.
 func newImageDestination(sys *types.SystemContext, ref ociReference) (types.ImageDestination, error) {
-	if ref.image == "" {
-		return nil, errors.Errorf("cannot save image with empty reference name (syntax must be of form <transport>:<path>:<reference>)")
-	}
-
 	var index *imgspecv1.Index
 	if indexExists(ref) {
 		var err error
@@ -217,13 +213,11 @@ func (d *ociImageDestination) PutManifest(ctx context.Context, m []byte) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if d.ref.image == "" {
-		return errors.Errorf("cannot save image with empyt image.ref.name")
+	if d.ref.image != "" {
+		annotations := make(map[string]string)
+		annotations["org.opencontainers.image.ref.name"] = d.ref.image
+		desc.Annotations = annotations
 	}
-
-	annotations := make(map[string]string)
-	annotations["org.opencontainers.image.ref.name"] = d.ref.image
-	desc.Annotations = annotations
 	desc.Platform = &imgspecv1.Platform{
 		Architecture: runtime.GOARCH,
 		OS:           runtime.GOOS,
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_transport.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_transport.go
index 95a9def2..857c8081 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_transport.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/oci/layout/oci_transport.go
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ type ociReference struct {
 	// (But in general, we make no attempt to be completely safe against concurrent hostile filesystem modifications.)
 	dir         string // As specified by the user. May be relative, contain symlinks, etc.
 	resolvedDir string // Absolute path with no symlinks, at least at the time of its creation. Primarily used for policy namespaces.
-	image       string // If image=="", it means the only image in the index.json is used
+	// If image=="", it means the "only image" in the index.json is used in the case it is a source
+	// for destinations, the image name annotation "image.ref.name" is not added to the index.json
+	image string
 }
 
 // ParseReference converts a string, which should not start with the ImageTransport.Name prefix, into an OCI ImageReference.
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/pkg/docker/config/config.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/pkg/docker/config/config.go
index 3edab053..724aef4e 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/pkg/docker/config/config.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/pkg/docker/config/config.go
@@ -149,13 +149,15 @@ func getPathToAuth(sys *types.SystemContext) (string, error) {
 
 	runtimeDir := os.Getenv("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
 	if runtimeDir != "" {
+		// This function does not in general need to separately check that the returned path exists; that’s racy, and callers will fail accessing the file anyway.
+		// We are checking for os.IsNotExist here only to give the user better guidance what to do in this special case.
 		_, err := os.Stat(runtimeDir)
 		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
 			// This means the user set the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable and either forgot to create the directory
-			// or made a typo while setting the environment variable
-			// so we log the error and return an empty string as the path
+			// or made a typo while setting the environment variable,
+			// so return an error referring to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of …/authCfgFileName inside.
 			return "", errors.Wrapf(err, "%q directory set by $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR does not exist. Either create the directory or unset $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.", runtimeDir)
-		}
+		} // else ignore err and let the caller fail accessing …/authCfgFileName.
 		runtimeDir = filepath.Join(runtimeDir, authCfg)
 	} else {
 		runtimeDir = filepath.Join(defaultPath, authCfg, strconv.Itoa(os.Getuid()))