Building podman image not correctly following symlinks?

[rdbisme]

❯ molecule --version
molecule 24.9.0 using python 3.12
    ansible:2.17.5
    azure:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins
    containers:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: ansible.posix>=1.3.0 community.docker>=1.9.1 containers.podman>=1.8.1
    default:24.9.0 from molecule
    docker:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: community.docker>=3.4.11 ansible.posix>=1.4.0
    ec2:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins
    gce:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: google.cloud>=1.0.2 community.crypto>=1.8.0
    openstack:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: openstack.cloud>=2.1.0
    podman:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: containers.podman>=1.7.0 ansible.posix>=1.3.0
    vagrant:23.5.3 from molecule_plugins

When molecule tries to build the docker image with podman, and the molecule context contains symlinks, it fails with:

FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Build an Ansible compatible image (1 retries left).Result was: {
    "attempts": 3,
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "arch": null,
            "auth_file": null,
            "build": {
                "annotation": null,
                "cache": true,
                "container_file": null,
                "extra_args": " ",
                "file": "/home/rdb/.cache/molecule/extensions/default/Dockerfile_archlinux_latest",
                "force_rm": false,
                "format": "oci",
                "rm": true,
                "target": null,
                "volume": null
            },
            "ca_cert_dir": null,
            "executable": "podman-remote",
            "force": false,
            "name": "molecule_local/archlinux:latest",
            "password": null,
            "path": "/home/rdb/git/dotfiles/roles/starship/extensions/molecule/default",
            "pull": true,
            "pull_extra_args": null,
            "push": false,
            "push_args": {
                "compress": null,
                "dest": null,
                "extra_args": null,
                "format": null,
                "remove_signatures": null,
                "sign_by": null,
                "transport": null
            },
            "quadlet_dir": null,
            "quadlet_filename": null,
            "quadlet_options": null,
            "state": "present",
            "tag": "latest",
            "username": null,
            "validate_certs": null
        }
    },
    "msg": "Failed to build image molecule_local/archlinux:latest:  Error: invalid symlink \"/var/tmp/libpod_builder1834532180/build/molecule.yml\" -> \"../../../../../extensions/molecule/default/molecule.yml\"\n",
    "retries": 4
}

This is the tree of my project:

❯ tree ../../../
../../../
├── ansible.cfg
├── extensions
│   └── molecule
│       └── default
│           ├── Dockerfile.j2
│           ├── molecule.yml
│           └── prepare.yml
├── hosts
├── poetry.lock
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
├── requirements.yml
└── roles
    └── starship
        ├── defaults
        │   └── main.yml
        ├── extensions
        │   └── molecule
        │       ├── default
        │       │   ├── converge.yml
        │       │   ├── Dockerfile.j2
        │       │   ├── molecule.yml -> ../../../../../extensions/molecule/default/molecule.yml
        │       │   ├── prepare.yml -> ../../../../../extensions/molecule/default/prepare.yml
        │       │   └── verify.yml
        │       └── rootless
        │           ├── converge.yml
        │           ├── Dockerfile.j2 -> ../../../../../extensions/molecule/default/Dockerfile.j2
        │           ├── molecule.yml -> ../../../../../extensions/molecule/default/molecule.yml
        │           ├── prepare.yml -> ../../../../../extensions/molecule/default/prepare.yml
        │           └── verify.yml
        ├── handlers
        │   └── main.yml
        ├── meta
        │   └── main.yml
        ├── README.md
        ├── tasks
        │   ├── main.yml
        │   ├── rootless.yml
        │   └── root.yml
        ├── tests
        │   ├── inventory
        │   └── test.yml
        └── vars
            └── main.yml

❯ cat molecule/default/molecule.yml
---
driver:
  name: podman
platforms:
  - name: instance
    image: archlinux:latest
    pre_build_image: false
    dockerfile: Dockerfile.j2
provisioner:
  name: ansible
  env:
    ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH: ../../../..
  inventory:
    group_vars:
      all:
        ansible_user: rdb
lint: |
  set -e
  yamllint .
  ansible-lint .

[rdbisme]

If I replace the symlinks with the actual files it works.

[rdbisme]

This seems a bug with https://github.com/containers/ansible-podman-collections

[rdbisme]

Ok, this is an expected behaviour of docker / podman build not following symlinks outside of context.

Sorry for the noise.