FC6 vs FC6 respin? how to tell?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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?

The respins are just accumulation of updates. They dont modify any 
packages. So the only reasonable way to find out is a straight package 
list comparison.

Rahul