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Description of problem:
I know its a nit-picky little thing, but RPMs built on RedHat 9 (I 
haven't checked older versions yet) report incorrect sizes depending 
on how files are packaged in the %files section of the spec.

In particular, file sizes are added to the Size variable in these 
cases when it shouldn't be :

* A file is listed twice in the same %files section, usually because
  a wildcard caught it once then it is listed explicity (the file
  size is added twice in this case).  It is reported by RPM as being 
  there twice, just not handled properly.

* A file is excluded via %exclude, its size is still added, although 
  the file is not

And finally, file sizes are NOT added to the Size variable for 
symbolic links...  

I can see how the first two are "well write your spec files properly 
you idiot and it will work fine", and I agree, I've fixed those, but 
the latter looks like it should be fixed, not a big deal, but for 
accuracy's sake.
 
The following script will take an RPM as an argument and report
on the sum of the sizes listed in the file list and the size listed
in the Size variable in the RPM and put a * beside the result if they 
don't match.

#!/bin/sh
file=$1
realsize=`rpm -qlvp $file | awk '{s+=$5} END {print s}'`;
reportedsize=`rpm -qp --queryformat "%{size}" $file`; 
if [ "$realsize" != "$reportedsize" ]; then 
   printf "* "
else 
   printf "  "
fi
printf "%10s %10s %s\n" $realsize $reportedsize $file;
exit 0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-build-4.2-0.69

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add an %exclude to a SPEC file and build it
2.Include links in the %files section of a SPEC file
3.List a file twice in a SPEC file
    

Actual Results:  In each case, the size reported by rpm -qi on the RPM was
different from the actual size of adding up the included
files.

Expected Results:  The size of the RPM should be exactly the sum of the sizes
of the included files.

Additional info: