If you should find yourself wanting to install pyspatialite on Fedora -- perhaps because you want to use the Processing plugin for QGIS -- you will first need to install the following dependencies:

• gcc
• python-devel
• sqlite-devel
• geos-devel
• proj-devel
• python-pip
• redhat-rpm-config

After which you can install pyspatialite using pip by running:

CFLAGS=-I …

This is the second in a loose sequence of articles looking at new features in Ansible 2.0. In the previous article I looked at the Docker connection driver. In this article, I would like to provide an overview of the new-and-much-improved suite of modules for interacting with an OpenStack …

This post is in response to a comment someone made on irc earlier today:

[I] would really like a git lookaside cache which operated on an upstream repo, but pulled objects locally when they're available

In this post I present a proof-of-concept solution to this request. Please note that thisand …

When writing Ansible roles I occasionally want a way to just run a role from the command line, without having to muck about with a playbook. I've seen similar requests on the mailing lists and on irc.

I've thrown together a quick wrapper that will allow you (and me!) to …

If you've tried running Ansible against a Fedora 23 system, you may have run into the following problem:

fatal: [myserver]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true,
"msg": "/bin/sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory\r\n",
"parsed": false}

Fedora has recently made the switch to only including Python …