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>

33 files changed, 91 insertions, 39 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index a8f092db09..5d68cc41b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Miscellaneous files for the base system."
+SUMMARY = "Miscellaneous files for the base system."
+DESCRIPTION = "The base-files package creates the basic system directory structure and provides a small set of key configuration files for the system."
 SECTION = "base"
 PRIORITY = "required"
 PR = "r64"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb
index f0ca8e6280..c6c6260b8b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.22.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Base system password/group files."
+SUMMARY = "Base system master password/group files."
+DESCRIPTION = "The master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group).  The update-passwd tool is also provided to keep the system databases synchronized with these master files."
 SECTION = "base"
 PR = "r0"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index 8c258135c8..b3c6c66151 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+SUMMARY = "Tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities in a single small executable."
 DESCRIPTION = "BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.busybox.net"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.busybox.net/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/console-tools/console-tools_0.3.2.bb b/meta/recipes-core/console-tools/console-tools_0.3.2.bb
index 3c5067f102..02ca5b9d86 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/console-tools/console-tools_0.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/console-tools/console-tools_0.3.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
-DESCRIPTION = "Allows you to set-up and manipulate the Linux console."
+SUMMARY = "Allows you to set-up and manipulate the Linux console."
+DESCRIPTION = "Provides tools that enable the set-up and manipulation of the linux console and console-font files."
 DEPENDS = "gettext"
 PR = "r2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_6.9.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_6.9.bb
index 6a23f4f65f..89f420a40b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_6.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_6.9.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system"
+SUMMARY = "The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities."
+DESCRIPTION = "The GNU Core Utilities provide the basic file, shell and text \
+manipulation utilities. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on \
+every system."
+
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://debbugs.gnu.org/coreutils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.5.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.5.bb
index 5213fa2937..d8d5904010 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system"
+SUMMARY = "The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities."
+DESCRIPTION = "The GNU Core Utilities provide the basic file, shell and text \
+manipulation utilities. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on \
+every system."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://debbugs.gnu.org/coreutils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib.inc
index 985c565e8b..7dee3ffb7b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "high level language (glib) binding for dbus"
+SUMMARY = "High level language (GLib) binding for D-Bus"
+DESCRIPTION = "GLib bindings for the D-Bus message bus that integration the D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus"
 LICENSE = "AFL2.1 | GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=cf5b3a2f7083750d504333114e738656 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
index 90a38e66a9..daf5960c70 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a \"single instance\" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed"
+SUMMARY = "D-Bus message bus"
+DESCRIPTION = "D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a \"single instance\" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dbus.freedesktop.org"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "AFL2.1 | GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
index 1d78d5c59b..dd2f0c5b53 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dropbear/dropbear.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Dropbear is a lightweight SSH and SCP Implementation"
+DESCRIPTION = "Dropbear is a lightweight SSH and SCP implementation"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eggdbus/eggdbus_0.6.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eggdbus/eggdbus_0.6.bb
index 3a0d0fed13..acb0b15e95 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eggdbus/eggdbus_0.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eggdbus/eggdbus_0.6.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+SUMMARY = "An alternative to dbug-glib."
 DESCRIPTION = "An alternative to dbus-glib. It is designed specifically to make it comfortable to work with very large and potentially complex D-Bus services like e.g. DeviceKit-disks"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~david/eggdbus"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
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"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat.inc b/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat.inc
index 8c5010e481..d902b7afdf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/expat/expat.inc
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+SUMMARY = "A stream-oriented XML parser library."
 DESCRIPTION = "Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://expat.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.17.bb b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.17.bb
index c945891e26..7a936ea914 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.17.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The GNU internationalization library."
+SUMMARY = "Utilities and libraries for producing multi-lingual messages."
+DESCRIPTION = "Gettext offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, the GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable strings, or already translated strings."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index 6e7f6a3347..0150b7fb9b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows, OS/2 and BeOS"
+SUMMARY = "A general-purpose utility library"
+DESCRIPTION = "GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on."
 # pcre is under BSD;
 # docs/reference/COPYING is with a 'public domai'-like license!
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & BSD & public domain"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
index 8faeeb7e89..27dc4271c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
@@ -80,13 +80,17 @@ FILES_glibc-thread-db = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db*"
 FILES_localedef${PKGSUFFIX} = "${bindir}/localedef"
 RPROVIDES_glibc-dev += "libc-dev"
 
-DESCRIPTION_sln = "glibc: create symbolic links between files"
-DESCRIPTION_nscd = "glibc: name service cache daemon for passwd, group, and hosts"
-DESCRIPTION_glibc-extra-nss = "glibc: nis, nisplus and hesiod search services"
-DESCRIPTION_ldd = "glibc: 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_glibc-extra-nss = "hesiod, NIS and NIS+ nss libraries"
+DESCRIPTION_glibc-extra-nss = "glibc: 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 = "glibc: compile locale definition files"
-DESCRIPTION_glibc-utils = "glibc: misc utilities like iconf, local, gencat, tzselect, rpcinfo, ..."
-
+SUMMARY_glibc-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities provided by glibc"
+DESCRIPTION_glibc-utils = "Miscellaneous utilities including getconf, iconf, locale, gencat, tzselect, zic, rpcinfo, ..."
 
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += "rootsbindir=${base_sbindir}"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index 0d79b53a8c..1ec007d26f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "SysV init scripts"
+SUMMARY = "SysV init scripts"
+DESCRIPTION = "Initscripts provide the basic system startup initialization scripts for the system.  These scripts include actions such as filesystem mounting, fsck, RTC manipulation and other actions routinely performed at system startup.  In addition, the scripts are also used during system shutdown to reverse the actions performed at startup."
 SECTION = "base"
 PRIORITY = "required"
 DEPENDS = "makedevs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8b.bb b/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8b.bb
index 53847e715a..012bbcf491 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8b.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/jpeg/jpeg_8b.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "libjpeg is a library for handling the JPEG (JFIF) image format."
+SUMMARY = "libjpeg is a library for handling the JPEG (JFIF) image format."
+DESCRIPTION = "libjpeg contains a library for handling the JPEG (JFIF) image format, as well as related programs for accessing the libjpeg functions."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.ijg.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = ""
 
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ do_install() {
 }
 
 PACKAGES =+             "jpeg-tools "
+DESCRIPTION_jpeg-tools = "The jpeg-tools package includes the client programs for access libjpeg functionality.  These tools allow for the compression, decompression, transformation and display of JPEG files."
 FILES_jpeg-tools =      "${bindir}/*"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
index 5aba6a7875..6959b69d81 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNOME XML Parser library"
+SUMMARY = "XML C Parser Library and Toolkit"
+DESCRIPTION = "The XML Parser Library allows for manipulation of XML files.  Libxml2 exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and HTML.  It can do DTD validation at parse time, on a parsed document instance or with an arbitrary DTD.  Libxml2 includes complete XPath, XPointer and Xinclude implementations.  It also has a SAX like interface, which is designed to be compatible with Expat."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
index cc84edaf0b..d5d251cbf0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Ncurses library"
+SUMMARY = "The New Curses library"
+DESCRIPTION = "SVr4 and XSI-Curses compatible curses library and terminfo tools including tic, infocmp, captoinfo. Supports color, multiple highlights, forms-drawing characters, and automatic recognition of keypad and function-key sequences. Extensions include resizable windows and mouse support on both xterm and Linux console using the gpm library."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_4.41.bb b/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_4.41.bb
index 8c31df9ac8..585313b570 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_4.41.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_4.41.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+SUMMARY = "Basic TCP/IP networking support"
 DESCRIPTION = "This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP based networking"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.debian.org/netbase"
 SECTION = "base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_svn.bb
index 1e53ef1f1b..1ca5cf6dff 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_svn.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Userspace framebuffer boot logo based on usplash."
+SUMMARY = "Userspace framebuffer boot logo based on usplash."
+DESCRIPTION = "PSplash is a userspace graphical boot splash screen for mainly embedded Linux devices supporting a 16bpp or 32bpp framebuffer. It has few dependencies (just libc), supports basic images and text and handles rotation. Its visual look is configurable by basic source changes. Also included is a 'client' command utility for sending information to psplash such as boot progress information."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://svn.o-hand.com/view/misc/trunk/psplash/"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
index 5b513211dc..1d7a99102d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "system utilities based on sysfs."
+SUMMARY = "Tools for working with sysfs."
+DESCRIPTION = "Tools for working with the sysfs virtual filesystem.  The tool 'systool' can query devices by bus, class and topology."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb
index db38064548..782cb1e64d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "System-V like init."
+DESCRIPTION = "This package is required to boot in most configurations.  It provides the /sbin/init program.  This is the first process started on boot, and the last process terminated before the system halts."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/tinylogin/tinylogin_1.4.bb b/meta/recipes-core/tinylogin/tinylogin_1.4.bb
index 3daeac004a..168bcbfcd7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/tinylogin/tinylogin_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/tinylogin/tinylogin_1.4.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 SECTION = "base"
+SUMMARY = "Tiny versions of many common login, authentication and related utilities."
 DESCRIPTION = "TinyLogin is a suite of tiny UNIX \
 utilities for handling logins, user authentication, \
 changing passwords, and otherwise maintaining users \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc
index a19a9c32a7..5e87cf9550 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "C library for embedded systems"
+SUMMARY = "C library for embedded systems"
+DESCRIPTION = "The name uClibc is an abbreviation for 'the \ 
+microcontroller C library'. For simplicity, uClibc is pronounced \ 
+'yew-see-lib-see'.  The goal of uClibc is to provide as much \
+functionality as possible in a small amount of space, and it is intended \
+primarily for embedded use. It is also highly configurable in supported \
+features, at the cost of ABI differences for different configurations. \
+uClibc has been designed from the ground up to be a C library for \
+embedded Linux.  It is NOT compatible with binaries linked against glibc."
+
 LICENSE = "LGPL"
 SECTION = "libs"
 PRIORITY = "required"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_0.0.bb
index 624f57e6e1..14a2d168cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-extraconf_0.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Extra machine specific configuration files"
+SUMMARY = "Extra machine specific configuration files"
+DESCRIPTION = "Extra machine specific configuration files for udev, specifically blacklist information."
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 
 PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-new.inc b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-new.inc
index 1a9f202045..9fcf86af21 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-new.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev-new.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+SUMMARY = "/dev/ and hotplug management daemon"
 DESCRIPTION = "udev is a daemon which dynamically creates and removes device nodes from \
-/dev/, handles hotplug events and loads drivers at boot time. It replaces \
-the hotplug package and requires a kernel not older than 2.6.12."
+/dev/, handles hotplug events and loads drivers at boot time."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
 LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev.inc b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev.inc
index 0afd817b8f..d731816d37 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION ?= "udev is a program which dynamically creates and removes device nodes from \
+SUMMARY = "/dev/ and hotplug management daemon"
+DESCRIPTION = "udev is a program which dynamically creates and removes device nodes from \
 /dev/. It responds to /sbin/hotplug device events and requires a 2.6 kernel."
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_145.bb b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_145.bb
index 75a7572b3f..e26660b209 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_145.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_145.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "udev is a daemon which dynamically creates and removes device nodes from \
-/dev/, handles hotplug events and loads drivers at boot time. It replaces \
-the hotplug package and requires a kernel not older than 2.6.12."
 RPROVIDES_${PN} = "hotplug"
 
 PR = "r10"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb
index 03ac5c1a29..accb385291 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "manage symlinks in /etc/rcN.d."
+SUMMARY = "manage symlinks in /etc/rcN.d."
+DESCRIPTION = "update-rc.d is a utilities that allows the management of symlinks to the initscripts in the /etc/rcN.d directory structure."
 SECTION = "base"
 PRIORITY = "standard"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "all"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
index ceb32ef8d7..53d84632c9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system."
+SUMMARY = "A suite of basic system administration utilities."
+DESCRIPTION = "Util-linux includes a suite of basic system administration utilities \
+commonly found on most Linux systems.  Some of the more important utilities include \
+disk partitioning, kernel message management, filesystem creation, and system login."
+
 SECTION = "base"
 
 # note that `lscpu' is under GPLv3+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb
index e6db69e3a6..8897406f90 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/zlib/zlib_1.2.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Zlib Compression Library"
+SUMMARY = "Zlib Compression Library"
+DESCRIPTION = "Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression \
+library which is used by many different programs."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://zlib.net/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 PRIORITY = "required"