Re: Questions about releasever change

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:09:11 -0600,
   Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote:
>Commit a52edb8c83e0006a6c0d3cc6071fb3f539e53d00 changed the returned 
>value for version for provides. Previously the version was the part 
>before the dash so that provide strings were treated like 
>version-release. This has broken things that use $releasever.
>
>I am curious about why this change was made?

It looks like the rational is in bug 1002977 which is private.

I also note the main commit is really d0272d66ad1c36e85facc7deed2408409cfec83a 
which suggests the behavior is intentional. And it looks like the correct 
thing to do is not include a version on the provides and one will get 
pulled from the package.

It also looks like calls to yum.config._getsysver should provide a list 
of strings as the second argument instead of a string. (This is what is 
likely breaking livecd-creator.)