applying patches

I'd like to have the machines I build with autoyast to have the latest patches already applied. Obviously, I don't want to have to run Online Update on each machine manually. Does anyone know of a way to apply the patch rpms automatically? I have a a directory tree under /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/8.0 with all the patches for 8.0. Is there a way to use this directory to patch the machines instead of running YOU on each? Thanks, Robert