Document where various fields of (skopeo inspect) come from

... and suggest how to deal with other-architecture images, a fairly frequent point of confusion. Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmač <[email protected]>
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@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ skopeo\-inspect - Return low-level information about _image-name_ in a registry.
 Return low-level information about _image-name_ in a registry.
 See [skopeo(1)](skopeo.1.md) for the format of _image-name_.
 
+The default output includes data from various sources: user input (**Name**), the remote repository, if any (**RepoTags**), the top-level manifest (**Digest**),
+and a per-architecture/OS image matching the current run-time environment (most other values).
+To see values for a different architecture/OS, use the **--override-os** / **--override-arch** options documented in [skopeo(1)](skopeo.1.md).
 
 ## OPTIONS