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04/04: gnu: par2cmdline: Improve synopsis & description.
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: |
04/04: gnu: par2cmdline: Improve synopsis & description. |
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Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:43:43 -0400 (EDT) |
nckx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit f6d59ecf920dadcaa115579e29ad38d16780ea89
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Jul 16 06:43:55 2017 +0200
gnu: par2cmdline: Improve synopsis & description.
* gnu/packages/backup.scm (par2cmdline)[synopsis, description]: Fix a typo,
end up re-writing most of it.
---
gnu/packages/backup.scm | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/backup.scm b/gnu/packages/backup.scm
index 0810a47..92cb048 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/backup.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/backup.scm
@@ -136,10 +136,15 @@ spying and/or modification by the server.")
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'unpack 'autoreconf
(lambda _ (zero? (system* "autoreconf" "-vfi")))))))
- (synopsis "File verification and repair tool")
- (description "Par2cmdline is a tool for generating RAID-like PAR2 recovery
-files using Reed-Solomon coding. PAR2 files can be stored along side backups
-or distributed files for recovering from bitrot.")
+ (synopsis "File verification and repair tools")
+ (description "Par2cmdline uses Reed-Solomon error-correcting codes to
+generate and verify PAR2 recovery files. These files can be distributed
+alongside the source files or stored together with back-ups to protect against
+transmission errors or @dfn{bit rot}, the degradation of storage media over
+time.
+Unlike a simple checksum, PAR2 doesn't merely detect errors: as long as the
+damage isn't to great (and smaller than the size of the recovery file), it can
+even repair them.")
(home-page "https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline")
(license license:gpl3+)))