diff --git a/dev/Vagrantfile.example b/dev/Vagrantfile.example
index dbcc925..387e9c4 100644
--- a/dev/Vagrantfile.example
+++ b/dev/Vagrantfile.example
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
- config.vm.box_url = "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-Vagrant-25-1.3.x86_64.vagrant-libvirt.box"
- config.vm.box = "f25-cloud-libvirt"
+ config.vm.box_url = "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/27/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-Vagrant-27-1.6.x86_64.vagrant-libvirt.box"
+ config.vm.box = "f27-cloud-libvirt"
 
 
  # Forward traffic on the host to the development server on the guest
diff --git a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/gitolite3.rc b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/gitolite3.rc
index 1a20d42..9c566f4 100644
--- a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/gitolite3.rc
+++ b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/gitolite3.rc
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 %RC = (
 
     # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    GL_REPO_BASE                    => '/home/vagrant/pagure_data/repos',
 
     # default umask gives you perms of '0700'; see the rc file docs for
     # how/why you might change this
diff --git a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml
index a67e8e4..686138c 100644
--- a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml
@@ -118,13 +118,7 @@
     - tickets
     - requests
     - remotes
-
-- name: Link the pagure repos directory to gitolite
-  become_user: "{{ ansible_env.SUDO_USER }}"
-  file:
-    path: /home/{{ ansible_env.SUDO_USER }}/pagure_data/repos
-    src: /home/{{ ansible_env.SUDO_USER }}/repositories
-    state: link
+    - repos
 
 - name: Add a working copy of alembic.ini
   become_user: "{{ ansible_env.SUDO_USER }}"