What is primary.sqlite.bz2

[Michael Schwendt]

On 15/08/07, مصطفے قاسم <alajal at gmail.com> 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.