mock_roles does not work with collection role name

[jennydaman]

Summary

The configuration mock_roles does not work with roles from collections, i.e. roles with two . characters in their name.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Tested in two different environments:

ansible-lint 26.1.1 using ansible-core:2.20.2 ansible-compat:25.12.0 ruamel-yaml:0.19.1 ruamel-yaml-clib:0.2.15

Also

ansible-lint 25.8.2 using ansible-core:2.20.0 ansible-compat:25.12.0 ruamel-yaml:0.18.16 ruamel-yaml-clib:0.2.14

• ansible installation method: pip, nixpkgs
• ansible-lint installation method: pip, nixpkgs

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

cd $(mktemp -d test-ansible-lint-XXXXXXXX -p '')

cat > .ansible-lint.yml << EOF
---
mock_roles:
  - one.two
  - one.two.three
EOF

cat > my_playbook.yml << EOF
---
- name: Testing ansible-lint
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - one.two
    - one.two.three
EOF

ansible-lint

Desired Behavior

Passed: 0 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 2 files. Last profile that met the validation criteria was 'production'.

Actual Behavior

WARNING  Listing 1 violation(s) that are fatal
syntax-check[specific]: the role 'one.two.three' was not found in /tmp/test-ansible-lint-nmW1zPN0/roles:/tmp/test-ansible-lint-nmW1zPN0/.ansible/roles:/home/jenni/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/tmp/test-ansible-lint-nmW1zPN0
my_playbook.yml:5:7


# Rule Violation Summary

  1 syntax-check profile:min tags:core,unskippable

Failed: 1 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 2 files.

Note

Role names with one . work, you can try this by running sed -i.bak '/one.two.three/d' my_playbook.yml followed by ansible-lint