>Hi i downloaded the 10/14/00 NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 distribution from the netbsd 
>ftp server.
>I wanted to checkout the kernel source from the cvs server for this 
>distribution and wanted
>to know what the date of the source that this distribution was compiled from.

	if there's no specific reason, i'd suggest you to download
	1.5 release (more recent than 1.5_ALPHA2), from
	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/.  source code tar.gz
	can be found under the directory.

itojun