[centos] yum and software updater
 

Hello?

In CentOS 5, what's the difference between
the yum and GUI software updater?

The software updater icon on the taskbar
shows I have about 36 updates while the console
yum shows about 180 updates available.

If I stop the software updater process about
two-thirds of the way, what happens to
the downloaded packages? Where are they stored?
Can I clean them or they're automatically deleted
when updates are completed?

By the way, restarting the software updater
appears to begin the download process from
scratch. Is there a way to just resume
the download as in the console yum update?

Thanks.

I personally don't use the GUI updater (pup/puplet). The GUI software installer seems OK, but I've always trusted and used Yum.

You shouldn't stop the process if you don't absolutely have to.
Downloaded RPMs are stored in /var/cache/yum/*/packages. You can clear them out at will without any negative effects. That being said, you should really use the `yum clean` option for cleaning up downloaded packages and such. `yum clean` has several options, `man yum` will tell you about them.

They are not automatically deleted by default.

Again, I just use Yum, but others might have more input ;)