FC6 vs FC6 respin? how to tell?

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:44 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael A Peters wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:53 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   i'm sure there's a trivial answer to this but i was just handed an
> > > unlabelled DVD, allegedly of the FC6 respin.  short of comparing some
> > > RPM versions on the DVD, is there an obvious way to tell that this is
> > > the respin and not the original FC6?  thanks.
> >
> > Look at the kernel rpm - respin is newer.
> > That's just one package.
> 
> oh, i realize it's easy to check with a single RPM comparison.  but
> i'm interested in whether the respin release is identified in a more
> obvious way.  or is there no value in being able to tell the
> difference?

Well, you could do an sha1sum on the DVD.  The i386 version of the
respin has a signature of 0f6a53cf9c820eb91a8fa3b3589cbb1ec6b64643.
The original FC6 i386 has 6722f95b97e5118fa26bafa5b9f622cc7d49530c.

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