On 15/08/07, مصطفے قاسم <alajal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello! folks > whenever we update our fedora or install an rpm by yum it > processes "primary.sqlite.bz2" . Can anyone tell me what is the role of > primary.sqlite.bz2 in software management in Fedora? It is preprocessed Yum metadata in an SQLite database file and compressed with bzip2. Without this file, Yum would need to create the data at run-time, which would be slower.