diff --git a/vendor.conf b/vendor.conf
index b29ca9f5..fcb1f559 100644
--- a/vendor.conf
+++ b/vendor.conf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ k8s.io/apimachinery release-1.6 https://github.com/kubernetes/apimachinery
 k8s.io/apiserver release-1.6 https://github.com/kubernetes/apiserver
 #
 github.com/Sirupsen/logrus v0.11.5
-github.com/containers/image c2a797dfe5bb4a9dd7f48332ce40c6223ffba492
+github.com/containers/image 106607808da3cff168be56821e994611c919d283
 github.com/ostreedev/ostree-go master
 github.com/containers/storage 5d8c2f87387fa5be9fa526ae39fbd79b8bdf27be
 github.com/containernetworking/cni v0.4.0
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go
index 14360699..9fc85bd8 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/containers/image/docker/archive/dest.go
@@ -19,15 +19,24 @@ func newImageDestination(ctx *types.SystemContext, ref archiveReference) (types.
 	if ref.destinationRef == nil {
 		return nil, errors.Errorf("docker-archive: destination reference not supplied (must be of form <path>:<reference:tag>)")
 	}
-	fh, err := os.OpenFile(ref.path, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_EXCL|os.O_CREATE, 0644)
+
+	// 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
+	// so we check for Size() == 0 below (This is racy, but using O_EXCL would also be racy,
+	// only in a different way. Either way, it’s up to the user to not have two writers to the same path.)
+	fh, err := os.OpenFile(ref.path, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0644)
 	if err != nil {
-		// FIXME: It should be possible to modify archives, but the only really
-		//        sane way of doing it is to create a copy of the image, modify
-		//        it and then do a rename(2).
-		if os.IsExist(err) {
-			err = errors.New("docker-archive doesn't support modifying existing images")
-		}
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "error opening file %q", ref.path)
+	}
+
+	fhStat, err := fh.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "error statting file %q", ref.path)
+	}
+
+	if fhStat.Mode().IsRegular() && fhStat.Size() != 0 {
+		return nil, errors.New("docker-archive doesn't support modifying existing images")
 	}
 
 	return &archiveImageDestination{