FC6 vs FC6 respin? how to tell?

[Kam Leo]

On 3/5/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
>
> > On 3/5/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer          rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> >
> > Almost three months have elapsed and numerous updates have occurred
> > since the availability announcement. Is anything to be gained by
> > using the respin versus the original? You definitely will loose the
> > 2.6.18 kernel which some of us need because of a PS/2 mouse bug in
> > the new kernel releases. Perhaps it's time for Fedora Unity to make
> > another spin.
>
> i'm guessing that the argument against that is the imminent release of
> FC7 but, on the other hand, if the respin has obvious problems, maybe
> a newer respin isn't such a bad idea.
>
> although, personally, i think it would be nice if there were *some*
> simple identifying file in the root directory that displayed what
> "version" of FC6 it was.
>
> rday
>

CD volume label; have you checked?