From 3872f70a013f99540400d4ef5871e827f303c514 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morris Jette <jette@schedmd.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:26:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Expand build notes description

---
 BUILD.NOTES | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/BUILD.NOTES b/BUILD.NOTES
index 0fd59bb35c6..574945fb050 100644
--- a/BUILD.NOTES
+++ b/BUILD.NOTES
@@ -37,7 +37,12 @@ Linux cluster (See BlueGene and AIX specific notes below for some differences).
      files, but not to code.
    - this is a prerelease (Release = 0.preX)
 2. Tag the repository with the appropriate name for the new version.
-   > git tag -a slurm-2-3-0-0-pre5 -m "create tag v2.3.0-pre5"
+   Note the first three digits are the version number. For a proper release,
+   the last digit is "1" (except for a rebuild without code changes which
+   could be "2"). For pre-releases, the last digit should be "0" followed by
+   "pre#" or "rc#".
+   > git tag -a slurm-2-6-7-1 -m "create tag v2.6.7"  OR
+   > git tag -a slurm-2-7-0-0pre5 -m "create tag v2.7.0-pre5"
    > git push --tags
 3. Use the rpm make target to create the new RPMs. This requires a .rpmmacros 
    (.rpmrc for newer versions of rpmbuild) file containing:
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