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authorMark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>2010-09-27 09:44:05 -0500
committerRichard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>2010-10-11 22:15:10 +0100
commitfa647b91768a151988f57036dfeff9a0846d6f61 (patch)
tree6ee512465f610637c031d965f1ab2129d14b51a8 /meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
parentb2f2590e6c566d1ed4df87cf52279106497d584d (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-fa647b91768a151988f57036dfeff9a0846d6f61.tar.gz
recipes-core: Cleanup package descriptions and summaries
[BUGID #281] Evaluate and update each package in recipes-core to ensure they have a consistent summary and description. Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
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diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
index 8faeeb7e89..27dc4271c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
@@ -80,13 +80,17 @@ FILES_glibc-thread-db = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db*"
FILES_localedef${PKGSUFFIX} = "${bindir}/localedef"
RPROVIDES_glibc-dev += "libc-dev"
-DESCRIPTION_sln = "glibc: create symbolic links between files"
-DESCRIPTION_nscd = "glibc: name service cache daemon for passwd, group, and hosts"
-DESCRIPTION_glibc-extra-nss = "glibc: nis, nisplus and hesiod search services"
-DESCRIPTION_ldd = "glibc: print shared library dependencies"
+SUMMARY_sln = "The static ln."
+DESCRIPTION_sln = "Similar to the 'ln' utility, but statically linked. sln is useful to make symbolic links to dynamic libraries if the dynamic linking system, for some reason, is not functional."
+SUMMARY_nscd = "Name service cache daemon"
+DESCRIPTION_nscd = "nscd, name service cache daemon, caches name service lookups for the passwd, group and hosts information. It can damatically improvide performance with remote, such as NIS or NIS+, name services."
+SUMMARY_glibc-extra-nss = "hesiod, NIS and NIS+ nss libraries"
+DESCRIPTION_glibc-extra-nss = "glibc: nis, nisplus and hesiod search services.
+SUMMARY_ldd = "print shared library dependencies"
+DESCRIPTION_ldd = "/usr/bin/ldd prints shared library dependencies for each program or shared library specified on the command line."
DESCRIPTION_localedef = "glibc: compile locale definition files"
-DESCRIPTION_glibc-utils = "glibc: misc utilities like iconf, local, gencat, tzselect, rpcinfo, ..."
-
+SUMMARY_glibc-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities provided by glibc"
+DESCRIPTION_glibc-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities including getconf, iconf, locale, gencat, tzselect, zic, rpcinfo, ..."
EXTRA_OEMAKE += "rootsbindir=${base_sbindir}"