nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/system
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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acct Make platforms.allBut accept a list rather than a single platform 2014-08-09 12:31:33 +02:00
ansible Ansible: updated to 1.6.10 2014-07-31 12:24:30 +02:00
at Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
bootchart * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless 2012-01-18 20:16:00 +00:00
collectd Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
cron Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
dd_rescue dd_rescue: 1.22 -> 1.42.1 2014-03-06 15:15:44 +01:00
ddrescue ddrescue: 1.17 -> 1.18.1 2014-08-10 14:06:29 -05:00
efibootmgr Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
efivar efivar: Add derivation 2014-07-17 11:40:37 +02:00
evemu Add missing 's' in remaining meta.maintainer(s) attrs 2014-07-22 23:49:21 +02:00
fakechroot Add fakechroot 2014-02-06 21:35:20 +00:00
fakeroot Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
fcron Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
fdisk Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
fio Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
freeipmi Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
gdmap Make gdmap compile with newer gtk 2011-02-12 20:16:08 +00:00
gptfdisk Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
gt5 Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
hardlink Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
idle3tools Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
ioping ioping: update from 0.4 to 0.7 2013-12-16 01:36:18 +02:00
ipmitool ipmitool: update from 1.8.11 to 1.8.13 2014-01-13 17:32:05 +01:00
ipmiutil ipmiutil: update from 2.9.2 to 2.9.3 2014-04-03 10:26:55 +03:00
logcheck Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
logrotate Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
lshw lshw: update to 2.17b 2013-12-04 03:53:50 +02:00
mcron Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
monit Add missing 's' in remaining meta.maintainer(s) attrs 2014-07-22 23:49:21 +02:00
pciutils pciutils: minor update to today's version 2013-11-10 21:02:48 +01:00
plan9port plan9port: fix eval (license typo) 2014-08-15 02:06:45 +02:00
rsyslog Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
safecopy Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
setserial Setserial source fix 2009-06-11 05:41:30 +00:00
sg3_utils * Added udisks, the replacement of the disk management bits of HAL 2011-07-23 01:29:51 +00:00
sizes haskell-sizes: update to 2.3.2 2014-08-11 14:34:10 +02:00
sleuthkit sleuthkit: Rewrite to mkDerivation 2013-10-18 13:45:18 +02:00
smartmontools smartmontools: Update driverdb to r3849, and fix broken url 2013-08-28 16:58:07 +02:00
storebrowse Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into staging. 2014-08-04 16:51:47 +02:00
suid-chroot Added setuid-ready chroot utility. 2009-07-12 08:10:51 +00:00
symlinks Add Mark Lord's symlinks utility 2014-07-08 19:19:43 +02:00
syslog-ng syslog-ng: Update from 3.5.4.1 to 3.5.6 2014-08-06 12:10:07 +02:00
syslog-ng-incubator syslog-ng-incubator: Update from 0.3.1 to 0.3.3 2014-08-06 12:09:08 +02:00
thermald Add thermald: Linux Thermal Daemon 2014-08-14 02:21:31 +02:00
thinkfan Even more mirror:// fixes 2013-07-14 04:17:07 +03:00
tm Making ts and tm crossbuild 2010-11-26 14:12:10 +00:00
tree Many minor fixes to get things building after recent compiler changes 2014-08-10 23:18:57 -05:00
ts Updating ts to 0.7.4. 2013-11-11 09:53:17 +01:00
uptimed * added uptimed 0.3.16 2009-09-16 07:31:16 +00:00
vbetool Adding vbetool 2009-10-24 19:58:07 +00:00
vboot_reference Another attempt to eradicate ensureDir 2014-06-30 14:56:10 +02:00
which * ‘which’ doesn't actually depend on readline. 2011-12-12 23:41:02 +00:00