diff --git a/ares/maketgz b/ares/maketgz
index 670109b351..25eced97ca 100755
--- a/ares/maketgz
+++ b/ares/maketgz
@@ -96,3 +96,5 @@ for(@entries) {
 `gzip -9 $name-$version.tar`;
 # remove the dir
 `rm -rf $name-$version`;
+
+print "NOTE: now cvs tag this release!\n";