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branch master updated: gnu: isc-bind: List included utilities in the des


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Subject: branch master updated: gnu: isc-bind: List included utilities in the description.
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 23:54:19 -0400

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     new 83b5ea9  gnu: isc-bind: List included utilities in the description.
83b5ea9 is described below

commit 83b5ea9d18772334a47c3d76c6ca73a123cac12c
Author: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Jul 11 23:46:01 2020 -0400

    gnu: isc-bind: List included utilities in the description.
    
    A frequent question was: "Which package contained the 'dig' utility?"  This
    change should make the question answerable through 'guix search'.
    
    * gnu/packages/dns.scm (isc-bind)[synopsis]: Remove leading article.
    [description]: Add a table listing the utilities contained in the 'utils'
    output and insert a missing space between two sentences.
    [home-page]: Update.
---
 gnu/packages/dns.scm | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/dns.scm b/gnu/packages/dns.scm
index f96eeda..cb85074 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/dns.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/dns.scm
@@ -177,14 +177,28 @@ and BOOTP/TFTP for network booting of diskless machines.")
              (with-directory-excursion "fuzz"
                (invoke "make" "check"))
              #t)))))
-    (synopsis "An implementation of the Domain Name System")
+    (synopsis "Domain Name System (DNS) implementation")
     (description "BIND is an implementation of the @dfn{Domain Name System}
 (DNS) protocols for the Internet.  It is a reference implementation of those
 protocols, but it is also production-grade software, suitable for use in
-high-volume and high-reliability applications. The name BIND stands for
-\"Berkeley Internet Name Domain\", because the software originated in the early
-1980s at the University of California at Berkeley.")
-    (home-page "https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind";)
+high-volume and high-reliability applications.  The name BIND stands for
+\"Berkeley Internet Name Domain\", because the software originated in the
+early 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley.  The @code{utils}
+output of this package contains the following DNS name servers related command
+line utilities:
+@table @code
+@item delv
+DNS lookup and validation utility
+@item dig
+DNS lookup utility
+@item host
+DNS lookup utility
+@item nslookup
+Internet name servers interactive query utility
+@item nsupdate
+Dynamic DNS update utility
+@end table")
+    (home-page "https://www.isc.org/bind/";)
     (license (list license:mpl2.0))))
 
 (define-public dnscrypt-proxy



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