[Spacewalk-list] How to download all packages first, then do patching / upgrading

[fnwsa at yahoo.com]

Hi,

I've patched some systems and the processes took long time. For example, two systems took over 10 hours to patch 30~40 packages. I don't know if it's a Spacewalk server's GUI issue.

Is there a way to download all packages to the local drive first, then do patching? Is yumdownloader a good tool to do the job?

Thank you!
 

nz
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