Re: system-config-packages: why does it need CD?

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Steve Wardell wrote:

> I'm running FC5T1 and when I run system-config-packages, I get an error:
>
> Installation Tree Not Found: The path /media/cdrom does not look like 
> a valid installation source.
>
> I'm wondering why the full CD media should be needed to load the add / 
> remove packages listing. I'd expect that the system would have a list 
> of packages / product areas stored with the installation. Then once I 
> wanted to add a package, it then would ask if I wanted to get it from 
> CD/DVD, yum, etc. I didn't see a bug currently on this and wanted to 
> hear thoughts on this prior to posting a bug. 

Its been rewritten to use Yum as mentioned in the list before. Known 
issue. No need to post bug reports for now.

regards
Rahul