Linting a galaxy role's tests folder with symlink to role fails with newer version(s)

[chkpnt]

I'm having issues to lint my role chkpnt.mailserver with the newest ansible-lint release 24.2.1. It worked fine with 6.10.0.

The issue is the directory structure: The roles for the tests are defined in tests/testfixtures/roles/, whereas tests/testfixtures/roles/mailserver is a symlink to the repository's root folder.

I'm doing this, as I can't use roles_path = testfixtures/roles:../ in tests/ansible.cfg, as the galaxy role has to be in the repository's root instead of a folder named like the role's name.

With ansible-lint 6.10.0 this wasn't an issue:

But with ansible-lint 24.2.1, the symlink is traversed multiple times, which leads to an OSError File name too long:

So have anybody an idea for a work around?

[chkpnt]

Okay, I just figured it out, it's so obvious: After excluding the problematic path in tests/.ansible-lint, everything works as before.

exclude_paths:
  - testfixtures/roles/mailserver