Can not use mirrorlist with RHEL $releasever (bz#1175566)

[Ian Wienand]

Hi,

I'd like to try and find the/a person who could help out with [1].

EPEL version updates are a fairly constant annoyance that causes
issues with CI systems in upstream openstack when the version updates.

As described in the bug, I'd really like to just setup a .repo file
with

  http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-$releasever&arch=$basearch

to install "epel-release" and things should just work to always grab
the latest release.  However [6|7]Server, as given in $releasever by
RHEL/Centos, don't work as a path.

Any suggestions on how we can get this fixed?

-i

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175566