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c9baba9212
(My OCD kicked in today...) Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription. I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions. I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I succeeded). Some specifics worth mentioning: * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the description. * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis at the end of description. * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from nixos.org). * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description either.
45 lines
1.7 KiB
Nix
45 lines
1.7 KiB
Nix
{ fetchurl, stdenv }:
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stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
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name = "pies-1.2";
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src = fetchurl {
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url = "mirror://gnu/pies/${name}.tar.bz2";
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sha256 = "18w0dbg77i56cx1bwa789w0qi3l4xkkbascxcv2b6gbm0zmjg1g6";
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};
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doCheck = true;
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meta = {
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description = "A program invocation and execution supervisor";
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longDescription =
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'' The name Pies (pronounced "p-yes") stands for Program Invocation and
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Execution Supervisor. This utility starts and controls execution of
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external programs, called components. Each component is a
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stand-alone program, which is executed in the foreground. Upon
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startup, pies reads the list of components from its configuration
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file, starts them, and remains in the background, controlling their
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execution. If any of the components terminates, the default action
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of Pies is to restart it. However, it can also be programmed to
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perform a variety of another actions such as, e.g., sending mail
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notifications to the system administrator, invoking another external
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program, etc.
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Pies can be used for a wide variety of tasks. Its most obious use
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is to put in backgound a program which normally cannot detach itself
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from the controlling terminal, such as, e.g., minicom. It can
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launch and control components of some complex system, such as
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Jabberd or MeTA1 (and it offers much more control over them than the
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native utilities). Finally, it can replace the inetd utility!
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'';
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license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
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homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/pies/;
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platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.gnu;
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maintainers = [ ];
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};
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}
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