FC6 vs FC6 respin? how to tell?

Mon Mar 5 22:05:23 UTC 2007

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Rick Stevens wrote:

... snip some DVD differences ...

> There's several differences there, but the most glaring one is that the
> original has a volume ID of "FC/6 i386 DVD", while the respin has a
> volume ID of "Fedora Core 6 i386 DVD".

which, if you didn't know what the original volname was, wouldn't
really help you.  the obvious volname should mention "re-spin" and
include the date, as in:

  "FC/6 i386 Re-Spin 20070111"

or something similar.  that would be the trivial and perfect solution
for all this.

rday

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