nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/parted/default.nix
Bjørn Forsman c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(My OCD kicked in today...)

Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.

I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.

I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).

Some specifics worth mentioning:
 * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
   mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
   description.

 * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
   "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
   at the end of description.

 * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
   doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
   the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
   makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
   nixos.org).

 * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
   is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
   contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
   either.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, devicemapper, libuuid, gettext, readline
, utillinux, check, enableStatic ? false, hurd ? null }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "parted-3.1";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/parted/${name}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "05fa4m1bky9d13hqv91jlnngzlyn7y4rnnyq6d86w0dg3vww372y";
};
buildInputs = [ libuuid ]
++ stdenv.lib.optional (readline != null) readline
++ stdenv.lib.optional (gettext != null) gettext
++ stdenv.lib.optional (devicemapper != null) devicemapper
++ stdenv.lib.optional (hurd != null) hurd
++ stdenv.lib.optional doCheck check;
configureFlags =
(if (readline != null)
then [ "--with-readline" ]
else [ "--without-readline" ])
++ stdenv.lib.optional (devicemapper == null) "--disable-device-mapper"
++ stdenv.lib.optional enableStatic "--enable-static";
doCheck = true;
preCheck =
stdenv.lib.optionalString doCheck
# The `t0400-loop-clobber-infloop.sh' test wants `mkswap'.
"export PATH=\"${utillinux}/sbin:$PATH\"";
meta = {
description = "Create, destroy, resize, check, and copy partitions";
longDescription = ''
GNU Parted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying,
resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on
them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems,
reorganising disk usage, copying data on hard disks and disk imaging.
It contains a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted,
which also serves as a sample implementation and script backend.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
maintainers = [
# Add your name here!
stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo
];
# GNU Parted requires libuuid, which is part of util-linux-ng.
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
};
}