Description of problem:

In 4.8's installer#4760, the installer began passing oc adm release new ... a manifest so the cluster-version operator would manage a coreos-bootimages ConfigMap in the openshift-machine-config-operator namespace. installer#4797 reported issues with the 0.0.1-snapshot placeholder not getting substituted, and installer#4814 attempted to fix that issue by converting the manifest from JSON to YAML to align with the replacement rexexp. But for reasons I don't understand, that manifest still doesn't seem to be getting replaced.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

From 4.8 through 4.15.

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

With 4.8.0:

$ oc adm release extract --to manifests quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.0-x86_64
$ grep releaseVersion manifests/0000_50_installer_coreos-bootimages.yaml

Actual results:

  releaseVersion: 0.0.1-snapshot

Expected results:

  releaseVersion: 4.8.0

or other output that matches the extracted release. We just don't want the 0.0.1-snapshot placeholder.

Additional info:

Reproducing in the latest 4.14 RC:

$ oc adm release extract --to manifests quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.14.0-rc.2-x86_64
$ grep releaseVersion manifests/0000_50_installer_coreos-bootimages.yaml
  releaseVersion: 0.0.1-snapshot