[Fedora-livecd-list] [livecd-tools] * Tue Jan 04 2011 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 15.2-2 - patch to drop support of releasever in

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:35:28 -0600,
  Dennis Gilmore <ausil at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Its a likely long term thing, there is not a clean way to access the hosts rpm 
> database in a chroot.  and thats what it does. honestly a better soultion 
> would be to support passing it in as a optional commandline  option.  because 
> the way it is means you can only use it to build f-15 on f15  or f14 on f14  
> there is no way to use it and build a 15 image on a f14 host etc

This came up separately on the livecd list as well. Jesse suggested doing
what pungi does. Support $releasever but provide a --ver option to override
the version it uses.