how to install a custom XEN kernel & rpm's from kickstart?

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

Assuming you were using satellite server what would be prefferable?
Custom channels in Satellite server for your sofware or your own yum
repo's...? 

If you are using satellite I can't see the reason for using separate
repos unless you have multiple satellite server which all subscribe to
this custom repo.

Regards

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip
> Sent: 28 March 2008 15:01
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: RE: how to install a custom XEN kernel & rpm's from
kickstart?
> 
> The other thing you can do, if you are using RHEL 5, is to setup your
> own yum repo, include it in the command section, and then simply add
the
> packages to the package section like the any other build.  A bit more
> work to setup, but it works well.
> 
> If you just want the quick and easy method, then doing it over http is
> the easiest as Tom said.  Remember, you can load the rpm directly via
> http, no need to transfer it to the local system first.  ex:
> rpm -Uvh http://my_server/rpm/location/xen-3.2.0-0xs.centos5.i386.rpm
>