RH updates via FTP site?

Time was when I could just ftp to a site, cd to the relevant directory
and
type 'mget *' to download all the Red Hat Linux rpm package updates.

I now have 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5' or 'Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 CLIENT' if you want to call it that. I have a
subscription
to updates, but am I now really sentenced to goffy GUIs that try to
install
things for me and eat system resources or is there a way to do it the
old
bare-bones, brute-force way of downloading the rpm packages myself
(which
I'd like to keep copies of anyway) and then rpm'ing in the ones I want
to install?
Is there a place I can get the (binary, not source) RPMs?

The Derfer <derf109 RemoveThis @gmail.com> writes:

> Time was when I could just ftp to a site, cd to the relevant directory
> and
> type 'mget *' to download all the Red Hat Linux rpm package updates.
>
> I now have 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5' or 'Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 5 CLIENT' if you want to call it that. I have a
> subscription
> to updates, but am I now really sentenced to goffy GUIs that try to
> install
> things for me and eat system resources or is there a way to do it the
> old
> bare-bones, brute-force way of downloading the rpm packages myself
> (which
> I'd like to keep copies of anyway) and then rpm'ing in the ones I want
> to install?
> Is there a place I can get the (binary, not source) RPMs?

If you want updates:

up2date --update

No GUI necessary.