old files in /var/lib/rpm

[Reindl Harald]

am i right that "Filedigests", "Filemd5s", "Provideversion",
"Pubkeys" and "Requireversion" are unused fragments of older
rpm/yum versions and can be removed?

all machines are installed in 2008 with Fedora 9....

[root at buildserver:/var/lib/rpm]$ ls
insgesamt 85M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,4M 2012-07-21 21:39 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16K 2012-07-20 15:20 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 2012-07-21 21:39 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21M 2011-11-30 14:26 Filedigests
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,1M 2009-05-23 14:40 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24K 2012-07-21 21:39 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32K 2012-07-21 21:39 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  80K 2012-07-21 21:39 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24K 2012-07-20 15:11 Obsoletename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  51M 2012-07-21 21:39 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 968K 2012-07-21 21:39 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364K 2011-11-30 14:26 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K 2011-11-30 13:49 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 532K 2012-07-21 21:39 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 592K 2011-11-30 14:26 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140K 2012-07-21 21:39 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  76K 2012-07-21 21:39 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  16K 2012-07-16 13:05 Triggername

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