diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4ff4d5f4833..96138813e2e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ script:
   - coverage run bin/spack test
   # Checks if the file that have been changed are flake8 conformant
   - CHANGED_PYTHON_FILES=`git diff develop... --name-only | perl -ne 'print if /\.py$/'`
-  - if [[ ${CHANGED_PYTHON_FILES} ]] ; then flake8 --format pylint --config flake8.ini ${CHANGED_PYTHON_FILES} ; fi
+  - if [[ ${CHANGED_PYTHON_FILES} ]] ; then flake8 --format pylint --config flake8-framework.ini ${CHANGED_PYTHON_FILES} ; fi
 
 
 after_success:
diff --git a/flake8.ini b/flake8-framework.ini
similarity index 100%
rename from flake8.ini
rename to flake8-framework.ini
diff --git a/flake8-packages.ini b/flake8-packages.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..32ced73dd7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake8-packages.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[flake8]
+ignore = W391,F403,E221,F821
+max-line-length = 79