When rebuilding 2.1.1 operator metadata, I realized thanks to Radim that the only csv being updated with digests instead of tags was the LATEST one, 2.1.1.

This means that in the 2.1.1 operator metadata, the 2.1.0 CSV contains tags instead of digests.

I've manually updated the 2.1.0 csv by copying code from the 2.1.0.GA tag of

http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/containers/codeready-workspaces-operator-metadata/tree/controller-manifests/v2.1.0/codeready-workspaces.2.1.0.clusterserviceversion.yaml?h=2.1.0.GA

to

https://github.com/redhat-developer/codeready-workspaces-operator/commit/f5608222e5d09d296c48be12ee23129b3bf33c73?w=1

which then syncs to pkgs.devel here:

http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/containers/codeready-workspaces-operator-metadata/commit/?h=crw-2.0-rhel-8&id=53fa86a714884f6ea4f4d062a719ec63a1c9d73a

resulting in operator-metadata 2.1-47:

https://quay.io/repository/crw/operator-metadata?tag=2.1-47&tab=tags

But what's missing is that the 2.1.0.GA tag of crw-operator GH repo should ALSO include the digests, so we need to update this script to inject the generated digests into the GH repo before tagging:

https://github.com/redhat-developer/codeready-workspaces/blob/master/product/tagRelease.sh