merge help descriptions written by Tom Cameron

14 files changed, 59 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/package/autoconf/Config.in b/package/autoconf/Config.in
index 7b9da6091..0cead3c2d 100644
--- a/package/autoconf/Config.in
+++ b/package/autoconf/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOCONF
-	bool"autoconf"
+	bool "autoconf"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  Extensible program for developing configure scripts.  These 
+	  scripts handle all the mundane system/feature detection.
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
diff --git a/package/automake/Config.in b/package/automake/Config.in
index 05e709507..d71abcf87 100644
--- a/package/automake/Config.in
+++ b/package/automake/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOMAKE
-	bool"automake"
+	bool "automake"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  Tool for automatically generating Makefile's for input to 
+	  configure scripts (made by autoconf).
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
diff --git a/package/berkeleydb/Config.in b/package/berkeleydb/Config.in
index 0e8064491..383fd85cd 100644
--- a/package/berkeleydb/Config.in
+++ b/package/berkeleydb/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_BERKELEYDB
-	bool"berkeleydb"
+	bool "berkeleydb"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  The Berkeley database.  A very common library for database 
+	  applications.
 
+	  http://www.sleepycat.com/products/db.shtml
diff --git a/package/bison/Config.in b/package/bison/Config.in
index c0716987d..ca9fe7f3c 100644
--- a/package/bison/Config.in
+++ b/package/bison/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_BISON
-	bool"bison"
+	bool "bison"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  General-purpose parser generator that converts a 
+	  grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C 
+	  program to parse that grammar.
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
diff --git a/package/boa/Config.in b/package/boa/Config.in
index c051af8d3..cae1a9e56 100644
--- a/package/boa/Config.in
+++ b/package/boa/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_BOA
-	bool"boa"
+	bool "boa"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  A very small and very fast http daemon.  Not intended as 
+	  a feature-packed server.
 
+	  http://www.boa.org/
diff --git a/package/bridge/Config.in b/package/bridge/Config.in
index 9d89ed253..8a5ebce0e 100644
--- a/package/bridge/Config.in
+++ b/package/bridge/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_BRIDGE
-	bool"bridge"
+	bool "bridge"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  Manage ethernet bridging; a way to connect networks together to 
+	  form a larger network.
 
+	  http://bridge.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/package/bzip2/Config.in b/package/bzip2/Config.in
index 9e244bd92..63063c3f3 100644
--- a/package/bzip2/Config.in
+++ b/package/bzip2/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_BZIP2
-	bool"bzip2"
+	bool "bzip2"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  Freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor.  
+	  It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best 
+	  available techniques, while being around twice as fast at 
+	  compression and six times faster at decompression.
 
+	  http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
diff --git a/package/coreutils/Config.in b/package/coreutils/Config.in
index ca130e971..738fab2f9 100644
--- a/package/coreutils/Config.in
+++ b/package/coreutils/Config.in
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_COREUTILS
 	bool "coreutils"
 	default n
 	help
-	  All of the basic file/text/shell utilities.
+	  All of the basic file/text/shell utilities.  These are the 
+	  core utilities which are expected to exist on every system.  
+	  Busybox implements many of the most common.
 
 	  Things like:
 	  - chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls, etc...
diff --git a/package/customize/Config.in b/package/customize/Config.in
index 700c9ffd9..0d841d254 100644
--- a/package/customize/Config.in
+++ b/package/customize/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_CUSTOMIZE
-	bool"customize"
+	bool "customize"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  Add custom stuff to your buildroot.
 
+	  (edit package/customize/customize.mk)
diff --git a/package/dhcp_relay/Config.in b/package/dhcp_relay/Config.in
index ddd0f76ac..4d9b6d463 100644
--- a/package/dhcp_relay/Config.in
+++ b/package/dhcp_relay/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_DHCP_RELAY
-	bool"dhcp_relay"
+	bool "dhcp_relay"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  DHCP relay agent from the ISC DHCP distribution.
 
+	  http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
diff --git a/package/ed/Config.in b/package/ed/Config.in
index 533155617..d14343fdf 100644
--- a/package/ed/Config.in
+++ b/package/ed/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_ED
-	bool"ed"
+	bool "ed"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  A line-oriented text editor.  Used to create, display, modify, 
+	  and otherwise manipulate text files.  Often used in scripts 
+	  rather than invoked directly.
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
diff --git a/package/flex/Config.in b/package/flex/Config.in
index 119dd9f97..5ab330780 100644
--- a/package/flex/Config.in
+++ b/package/flex/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_FLEX
-	bool"flex"
+	bool "flex"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  A fast lexical analyser generator.  A tool for generating 
+	  programs that perform pattern-matching on text.
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/
diff --git a/package/gawk/Config.in b/package/gawk/Config.in
index a5073cd91..317bbe41b 100644
--- a/package/gawk/Config.in
+++ b/package/gawk/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_GAWK
-	bool"gawk"
+	bool "gawk"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  A special-purpose programming language which is data driven 
+	  rather than procedural.  Allows for simple data-reformatting jobs 
+	  with just a few lines of code.
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
diff --git a/package/gettext/Config.in b/package/gettext/Config.in
index 11e6a95dd..bcb51ee89 100644
--- a/package/gettext/Config.in
+++ b/package/gettext/Config.in
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-#
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_GETTEXT
-	bool"gettext"
+	bool "gettext"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Add help text here.
+	  The GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provide a 
+	  framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual 
+	  messages.
 
+	  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/