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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
