Salzer, Tom wrote:
Gerald et al., removing the nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/tools directory worked perfectly. My custom OSRCD ended up at about 690 Mb with 49 package updates included. The only one that didn't install was the infamous 16622 Apache update which I purposefully did not include in the OSRCD.
I've added this step as a note to my HOWTO, so others will be spared the pain in the future.