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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2018-02-06 19:23:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2018-02-06 20:02:12 +0100 |
| commit | 5ac1143dc4419f650d1ef8deeb18632ccb5c4d9a (patch) | |
| tree | 00298ff88b5abd1554b88608177894335becc2c6 /gnu/packages/networking.scm | |
| parent | 11b1f89ec25af3f5dcb621205391da44ac9a28a6 (diff) | |
gnu: whois: Expand synopsis & description.
* gnu/packages/networking.scm (whois)[synopsis, description]: Expand.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/networking.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/networking.scm | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/networking.scm b/gnu/packages/networking.scm index 738275a6b8..4f0bea78df 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/networking.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/networking.scm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2017 Stefan Reichör <stefan@xsteve.at> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Raimon Grau <raimonster@gmail.com> -;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> @@ -464,12 +464,12 @@ and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream.") "08sp2gzv09rar1a5mnfmbc24pqvhpqqmz2hnmv436n7v7d09qy2d")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (arguments - `(#:tests? #f ; Does not exist + `(#:tests? #f ; no test suite #:make-flags (list "CC=gcc" (string-append "prefix=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))) #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases - (delete 'configure) ; No configure + (delete 'configure) ; no configure script (add-before 'build 'setenv (lambda _ (setenv "HAVE_ICONV" "1") @@ -481,11 +481,16 @@ and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream.") `(("gettext" ,gettext-minimal) ("perl" ,perl) ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config))) - (synopsis "Improved whois client") - (description "This whois client is intelligent and can -automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries. -Because of historical reasons this also includes a tool called mkpasswd -which can be used to encrypt a password with @code{crypt(3)}.") + (synopsis "Intelligent client for the WHOIS directory service") + (description + "whois searches for an object in a @dfn{WHOIS} (RFC 3912) database. +It is commonly used to look up the registered users or assignees of an Internet +resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. +It can automatically select the appropriate server for most queries. + +For historical reasons, this package also includes @command{mkpasswd}, which +encrypts passwords using @code{crypt(3)} and is unrelated to the Expect command +of the same name.") (home-page "https://github.com/rfc1036/whois") (license license:gpl2+))) |