prerun creates a recursive .cache folder with the role and .cache folder

[VireshDoshi]

Issue Type

• Bug report

Molecule and Ansible details

ansible 2.10.7
  config file = /Users/vdoshi/consulting/repos/RHEL7-CIS/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/vdoshi/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Users/vdoshi/consulting/repos/RHEL7-CIS/venvp39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /Users/vdoshi/consulting/repos/RHEL7-CIS/venvp39/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.2 (default, Mar 26 2021, 23:22:38) [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)]
molecule 3.3.0 using python 3.9 
    ansible:2.10.7
    delegated:3.3.0 from molecule
    docker:0.2.4 from molecule_docker

Molecule installation method (one of):

molecule is installed using pip3 inside the virtualenv

Ansible installation method (one of):

Ansible is installed inside a virtualenv

Detail any linters or test runners used:

Desired Behavior

When running molecule, I am expecting the .cache directory to only include the role once which i assume is happing during the molecule prerun. ( i don't know how you disbable this?)

Actual Behaviour

running molecule converge
.cache directory contains a recursive folder with .cache-> .cache -> .cache e.t.c

[tadeboro]

Thank you, @VireshDoshi, for the issue. Molecule and ansible-lint share the code that is responsible for creating the .cache directory. I will transfer this issue from molecule to ansible-lint repo so that we can properly solve it.

[ssbarnea]

Can you please mention the steps needed to reproduce this bug: clone this repo, run this command,... ?

This seems like a bug we want to fix quickly but we need to reproduce it first.

[ssbarnea]

Closing in favour of #1566 which describes the real problem better. The recursive symlinks by itself is not a problem, but pip bug is. I will try to address it asap.