Why do the rpms need to be on cdrom? If you do an nfs install, the rpms will be on an nfs dir. The tool should handle such a situation by allowing me to specify a directory where the rpms are.
You can do this from the command-line (redhat-config-packages --tree=/path/to/tree) but we probably won't get to having this specified in the UI for this release
It would be nice if it could read this from a config file (say /etc/sysconfig/redhat-config-packages) such that one can set it up once and then just click on the icon. Thanks.
That's what the UI would basically be configuring -- probably not going to happen for this release, though, due to time constraints
Why did you put the config file in /etc/redhat-config-packages.method?
Because I'm a nice person and then forgot about closing the bug? :) The filename was mainly chosen so that when we add a real config file in a future release (since I'm sure there will have to be one sooner or later), we don't get a conflict on the filename and with getting rpm to replace it.