When creating a Copr project, one can specify which chroots, i.e. which distribution version and architecture combinations, to enable. Examples of chroots are fedora-27-x86_64, epel-7-ppc64le, fedora-rawhide-i386 etc.

However, there is no easy to use option to enable testing repositories, e.g. the updates-testing repository for Fedora Branched and stable releases, when specifying the chroots. Let me show you how you can easily achieve that by specifying an extra repository with a parameterized URL.

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Recently, I got a new laptop, a Dell XPS 15 9560 with 4k display, 32 GiBs of RAM and 1 TiB M.2 SSD drive. Quite nice specs, aren't they ?

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to purchase it without Windows pre-installed. But they didn't last long since I wiped the hard drive and installed Fedora 26 on it.

Let me briefly describe my experience and guide you through some trickier parts of the setup.

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A little late, but no less cool, Fedora EuroPython 2017 Attendee badge is available !

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Too many times I've seen people using a mix of yum/ dnf and pip for installation of system-wide Python packages This causes all sorts of problems .

TL; DR Install system-wide Python packages with yum/dnf and only use pip inside a virtual environment. For an example, see my Ansible snippet below .

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According to StaticGen, Pelican is the most popular static site generator written in Python. As of Oct 10, 2016 it has 6168 stars on GitHub.

In this blog post, I'll show you how to create your own Pelican site, track it in a git repository, use Fabric to administer it, change site's default theme and finally, create a Hello World blog post.

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