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>

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 ac0ba94bc2..649d4248cd 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 66bb90e83f..2857a408f9 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"