| Message ID | 40a8417b0c696509da522c9b5c072f004c0615f0.1679418658.git.mirai@makinata.eu |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Update psmisc to 23.6. | expand |
Hello, Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu> writes: > From: mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com> > > The text for the description is taken from the psmisc readme. > > * gnu/packages/linux.scm (psmisc)[description]: Make description more > informative. Thanks. > + "A package of small utilities that use the proc file-system. This should be a complete sentence, e.g., Psmisc is a set of small utilities… > +@itemize @bullet > +@item @command{fuser} - Identifies processes using files or sockets > +@item @command{killall} - kills processes by name, e.g. @samp{killall -HUP @var{name}} > +@item @command{prtstat} - prints statistics of a process > +@item @command{pslog} - prints log path(s) of a process > +@item @command{pstree} - shows the currently running processes as a tree > +@item @command{peekfd} - shows the data travelling over a file descriptor > +@end itemize") I suggest to remove the dashes, and probably add semicolons at the end of all but last item: @item @command{fuser} identifies processes using files or sockets; I suggest to add a comma after "e.g.", so Texinfo cannot consider it to be the end of a sentence: @item @command{killall} kills processes by name, e.g., @samp{killall -HUP @var{name}}; Actually, I even wonder if providing an example if worth being in a generic description. I probably belongs to a user manual: @item @command{killall} kills processes by name; Regards,
diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index ef05e77ec8..14e6f46a39 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Vasile Dumitrascu <va511e@yahoo.com> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Tim Gesthuizen <tim.gesthuizen@yahoo.de> +;;; Copyright © 2019 mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com> ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Stefan Stefanović <stefanx2ovic@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2019-2022 Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> @@ -2039,9 +2040,15 @@ (define-public psmisc (home-page "https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc") (synopsis "Small utilities that use the proc file system") (description - "This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that -use the proc file system. We're not about changing the world, but -providing the system administrator with some help in common tasks.") + "A package of small utilities that use the proc file-system. +@itemize @bullet +@item @command{fuser} - Identifies processes using files or sockets +@item @command{killall} - kills processes by name, e.g. @samp{killall -HUP @var{name}} +@item @command{prtstat} - prints statistics of a process +@item @command{pslog} - prints log path(s) of a process +@item @command{pstree} - shows the currently running processes as a tree +@item @command{peekfd} - shows the data travelling over a file descriptor +@end itemize") (license license:gpl2+))) (define-public util-linux
From: mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com> The text for the description is taken from the psmisc readme. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (psmisc)[description]: Make description more informative. Co-authored-by: Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu> --- gnu/packages/linux.scm | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)