--env-file doesnt work anymore resulting in Error: invalid reference format

[D3I5]

Describe the bug
suddenly the --env-file option doesnt work anymore. Placesholders in the .yaml-file stay empty or use the default option. I cant pinpoint a specfic data on which it broke.

To Reproduce

./hello_world/docker_compose.yaml:

version: "3.5"
services:
hallo-welt:
image: hello-world:${D_VERSION}

./hello_world/config/hello_world.env:

D_VERSION="nanoserver"

command I run:
sudo podman-compose -f hello_world/docker_compose.yaml --env-file hello_world/config/hello_world.env up -d

Expected behavior
no Error: invalid reference format

Actual behavior
Error: invalid reference format

Output

$ sudo podman-compose -f hello-world/docker-compose.yaml --env-file hello-world/config/hello_world.env up -d
podman-compose version: 1.0.6
['podman', '--version', '']
using podman version: 4.2.0
** excluding:  set()
['podman', 'ps', '--filter', 'label=io.podman.compose.project=hello-world', '-a', '--format', '{{ index .Labels "io.podman.compose.config-hash"}}']
['podman', 'network', 'exists', 'hello-world_default']
podman run --name=hello-world_hallo-welt_1 -d --label io.podman.compose.config-hash=6b92d9bd54ff2a485d41fd58382b73703d56a9e01ef4e2045ac7855a758c594f --label io.podman.compose.project=hello-world --label io.podman.compose.version=1.0.6 --label [email protected] --label com.docker.compose.project=hello-world --label com.docker.compose.project.working_dir=/opt/podman/hello-world --label com.docker.compose.project.config_files=hello-world/docker-compose.yaml --label com.docker.compose.container-number=1 --label com.docker.compose.service=hallo-welt --net hello-world_default --network-alias hallo-welt hello-world:
Error: invalid reference format
exit code: 125
podman start hello-world_hallo-welt_1
Error: no container with name or ID "hello-world_hallo-welt_1" found: no such container
exit code: 125

$ sudo podman-compose version
podman-compose version: 1.0.6
['podman', '--version', '']
using podman version: 4.2.0
podman-compose version 1.0.6
podman --version
podman version 4.2.0
exit code: 0

Environment:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 (Ootpa)

Additional context

Workaround:
copy the env-file into the directory of the .yaml file and name ist ".env", the just run sudo podman-compose -f hello-world/docker-compose.yaml up -d

Can someone reproduce this?

[rjeffman]

This seems to be a symptom of issue #1059.

[D3I5]

Thank you for mentioning that issue. Since I do not rely on relative paths I updated to 1.3.0 and started to use static paths. Works great. THX