This patch is for bug#34828. It makes the description for psmisc more informative.
This is one of my first patches submitted to Guix. Feedback is appreciated. Passed: `guix lint psmisc` `guix build --rounds=4 psmisc` ------------ >From 95f47eadb05de56a542d1be8f630e5ec4aa81485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mikadoZero <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:23:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: psmisc: Make package description more informative. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (psmisc): The content for the description is taken from the psmisc readme. --- gnu/packages/linux.scm | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 311bc6fa5..5365aa97d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2018 Pierre Langlois <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Vasile Dumitrascu <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Tim Gesthuizen <[email protected]> +;;; Copyright © 2019 mikadoZero <[email protected]> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -602,9 +603,21 @@ at login. Local and dynamic reconfiguration are its key features.") (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 +fuser - Identifies processes using files or sockets +@item +killall - kills processes by name, e.g. killall -HUP named +@item +prtstat - prints statistics of a process +@item +pslog - prints log path(s) of a process +@item +pstree - shows the currently running processes as a tree +@item +peekfd - shows the data travelling over a file descriptor +@end itemize") (license license:gpl2+))) (define-public util-linux -- 2.21.0
