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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/eglibc
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/recipes-core/eglibc')
-rw-r--r--meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc15
-rw-r--r--meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc3
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
index ac0ba94bc2c..649d4248cd9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
@@ -77,12 +77,17 @@ FILES_eglibc-thread-db = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db*"
FILES_localedef${PKGSUFFIX} = "${bindir}/localedef"
RPROVIDES_eglibc-dev += "libc-dev"
-DESCRIPTION_sln = "eglibc: create symbolic links between files"
-DESCRIPTION_nscd = "eglibc: name service cache daemon for passwd, group, and hosts"
-DESCRIPTION_eglibc-extra-nss = "eglibc: nis, nisplus and hesiod search services"
-DESCRIPTION_ldd = "eglibc: 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_eglibc-extra-nss = "hesiod, NIS and NIS+ nss libraries"
+DESCRIPTION_eglibc-extra-nss = "eglibc: 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 = "eglibc: compile locale definition files"
-DESCRIPTION_eglibc-utils = "eglibc: misc utilities like iconf, local, gencat, tzselect, rpcinfo, ..."
+SUMMARY_eglibc-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities provided by eglibc"
+DESCRIPTION_eglibc-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities including getconf, iconf, locale, gencat, tzselect, zic, rpcinfo, ..."
inherit libc-package
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc
index 66bb90e83f3..2857a408f98 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Embedded GNU C Library"
+SUMMARY = "Embedded GLIBC (GNU C Library)"
+DESCRIPTION = "Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) is a variant of the GNU C Library (GLIBC) that is designed to work well on embedded systems. EGLIBC strives to be source and binary compatible with GLIBC. EGLIBC's goals include reduced footprint, configurable components, better support for cross-compilation and cross-testing."
HOMEPAGE = "http://www.eglibc.org/home"
SECTION = "libs"
PRIORITY = "required"