On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Kam Leo wrote: > On 3/5/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > > 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
