F7 repo contains the packages that its install dvd has not. Why?

[Ian Burrell]

Peter Gordon <peter <at> thecodergeek.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:19 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > Is repoquery lying or is there that much duplication due to multilib?
> > Checking a local F7 i386 mirror (with no debuginfo or source package),
> > I get:
> > 
> > 8.7G    fedora/mirror/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/
> > 5.8G    fedora/mirror/updates/7/i386
> > 15G
> 
> I did it the hard way with some awk-fu, grabbing the Size value from
> each package in the development repository, then adding them up:
> 

The Size field in the rpm header and repodata is the installed size of the
package, not the size of the rpm file.

 - Ian