On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've read the file:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/README
> but it is more misleading than explainig:
> netbsd-4   - The 4.0_BETA2 pre-release branch (to become NetBSD 4.0)
> 
> "netbsd 4" contains 4.99.16 which is closer to 5.0 than 4.0. What the h*'s going on?

It looks like it contains 4.0_BETA2, just like the README says; why do
you think it contains 4.99.16?

$ ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200703220000Z/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
[ ... ]
221 Thank you for using the FTP service on ftp.NetBSD.org.
$ gunzip netbsd-GENERIC.gz
$ what netbsd-GENERIC
netbsd-GENERIC
	
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        NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Mar 22 18:14:39 UTC 2007

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