SLES 11 custom RPM autoyast

[stephen_e_smith]

We're trying to find a way, utilizing DVD 1 only of the installation medium, to ship the DVD with a custom RPM that's available for install via autoyast in the format of:

<software>
<packages config:type="list">
<package></package>
</packages>
</software>

We've tried:

1. Placing the RPM in the suse/i586 directory and installing through <package></package>
2. Updating packages.en.gz to reflect that the RPM is available for install via YaST which renders a checksum error

We'd like to install the RPM without the requirement for network functionality - is there an easy way to run this as a post installation script?

In addition we have:

<do_online_update config:type="boolean">true</do_online_update>

set in autoinst.xml however the online update doesn't seem to work