From unknown Tue Sep 23 08:11:47 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#34828 <34828@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#34828 <34828@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: psmisc description vague Reply-To: bug#34828 <34828@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:11:47 +0000 retitle 34828 psmisc description vague reassign 34828 guix submitter 34828 mikadoZero severity 34828 normal tag 34828 patch thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Mar 12 14:18:49 2019 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2019 18:18:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40565 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h3lzE-00075s-Ro for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:18:49 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54089) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h3lzA-00075d-Uq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:18:47 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:59997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3lz5-0006uZ-PB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:18:39 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3lz4-00006m-Vt for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:18:39 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3lw2-0004Vr-SK for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:15:32 -0400 Received: from forward104p.mail.yandex.net ([77.88.28.107]:39470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3lw2-0004PZ-0T for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:15:30 -0400 Received: from mxback12j.mail.yandex.net (mxback12j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::87]) by forward104p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id ADCD24B01F19 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:15:24 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp4p.mail.yandex.net (smtp4p.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:1402::15:6]) by mxback12j.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id gROyWDKVeO-FOmOMXjd; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:15:24 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1552414524; bh=QNjOd3EFSLX9FbZXEdXFcIf/Eg295qunAmUZGoKU2g0=; h=Subject:To:From:Date:Message-ID; b=UNuVJSKdkdhQfQAom6XiFIFYp3CUAwxSIwIdBNFsHEIJ0GsfsmgvowmWkvl0v7rlz dxeSBM5H8a525xdRMpuNW6a/vPvsOpHKt5mJ6kaUaHBw6LcGJnbsgLjdSVW0ZsNL2A SkZg/skodAPqKdhapXWxfXnzLlgvPiIPpKDaDZmw= Authentication-Results: mxback12j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Received: by smtp4p.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id SHZTjTNMlL-FNLWm9ne; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:15:23 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 From: mikadoZero To: bug-guix@gnu.org Subject: psmisc description vague Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 77.88.28.107 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) The description for the psmisc package would be more helpful if it listed the utilities that it included. As it is I do not know what I will get after installing. An example of a description that is more helpful is procps. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Mar 13 10:48:41 2019 Received: (at 34828) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Mar 2019 14:48:41 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42217 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h45BO-0002AY-Gp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:48:40 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48674) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h45BL-0002AI-BB for 34828@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:48:37 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h45BG-0006vP-1V; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:48:30 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=56670 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h45BF-0007q4-Jn; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:48:29 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: mikadoZero Subject: Re: bug#34828: psmisc description vague References: X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 23 =?utf-8?Q?Vent=C3=B4se?= an 227 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:48:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: (mikadoZero's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:15:05 -0400") Message-ID: <874l867rus.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 34828 Cc: 34828@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi, mikadoZero skribis: > The description for the psmisc package would be more helpful if it > listed the utilities that it included. As it is I do not know what I > will get after installing. > > An example of a description that is more helpful is procps. I would recommend against turning descriptions into lists of commands just for the sake of package search (we should instead have another mechanism to determine which package provides a given command), but listing key commands is useful for a package like this one. Would you like to propose a patch? Ludo=E2=80=99. From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Mar 23 19:55:37 2019 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Mar 2019 23:55:37 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55866 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h7qUD-00025f-Bu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:55:37 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51248) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h7qU9-00025S-W0 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:55:36 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:32989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7qU4-0002Hb-NC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:55:28 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7qU3-00015e-Gj for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:55:28 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7qU2-0002Gc-33 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:55:27 -0400 Received: from forward100p.mail.yandex.net ([77.88.28.100]:52895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7qU1-0002EU-5I for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:55:26 -0400 Received: from mxback20j.mail.yandex.net (mxback20j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::114]) by forward100p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 151D9598069D for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 02:55:21 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp4p.mail.yandex.net (smtp4p.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:1402::15:6]) by mxback20j.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id wY1pxescc8-tKO0J7Yo; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 02:55:20 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1553385320; bh=puBU5/bgWWVclX7WH0iLFRPkvptDxhBqSnZCRV8ksB0=; h=Subject:To:From:Date:Message-ID; b=nrEaTvvEN8ENqE4DXG9+sslCLbpLxCCnLHNpBeEgPoTGvhkC3w/xOsBnlc2FbZylX 3Isb3dlRlcR7wvQ+f4JqPl0bBPd9DcMR9kQNbN2ErC10i80aut8KSqYUAewFmgyU38 1UlDmzr4k5lsG3oB5vfzH8cNxpbrdDq6uz3YvkTA= Authentication-Results: mxback20j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Received: by smtp4p.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id rN1gwp8yCt-tJUKicHx; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 02:55:19 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 From: mikadoZero To: Guix-patches Subject: [PATCH] bug#34828 gnu: psmisc: Make package description more informative Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:54:45 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 77.88.28.100 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) 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=3D4 psmisc` ------------ >From 95f47eadb05de56a542d1be8f630e5ec4aa81485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mikadoZero 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 =C2=A9 2018 Pierre Langlois ;;; Copyright =C2=A9 2018 Vasile Dumitrascu ;;; Copyright =C2=A9 2019 Tim Gesthuizen +;;; Copyright =C2=A9 2019 mikadoZero ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -602,9 +603,21 @@ at login. Local and dynamic reconfiguration are its k= ey 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+))) =20 (define-public util-linux --=20 2.21.0 From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Jan 05 07:09:14 2023 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jan 2023 12:09:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50432 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pDP3a-0000KW-MS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:09:14 -0500 Received: from smtpm4.myservices.hosting ([185.26.105.235]:55668) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pDP3Z-0000KN-B8 for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:09:13 -0500 Received: from mail1.netim.hosting (unknown [185.26.106.172]) by smtpm4.myservices.hosting (Postfix) with ESMTP id B588F205C3 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:09:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.netim.hosting (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7678580099 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:09:08 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail1.netim.hosting Received: from mail1.netim.hosting ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1-1.netim.hosting [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id NATMCGnMD67F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:09:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.239] (unknown [10.192.1.83]) (Authenticated sender: lumen@makinata.eu) by mail1.netim.hosting (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 34E9480098 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:09:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <718b024b-13df-d894-eb64-faa56664e04d@makinata.eu> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 12:09:06 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 Content-Language: en-US To: control From: mirai Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.0 (++) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "debbugs.gnu.org", has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. 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Message-ID: <718fbf66254c89368203edfb7efebb7a@tobias.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 34828-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi mikadoZero & Bruno, I pushed #62348 patches 1 & 2 to master as 32b4f59433df620ab8f4b9a6c523f8ef9500d75d et al. I fixed a minor typo (‘file-system’) and added a full stop. The update patch (3/3) went to core-updates as 725b2528a65edf7425762b99330ab1c9bd33bc86. Thanks! T G-R Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity. 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