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-rw-r--r--var/spack/packages/cmake/package.py2
-rw-r--r--var/spack/packages/dyninst/package.py2
-rw-r--r--var/spack/packages/launchmon/package.py2
-rw-r--r--var/spack/packages/libunwind/package.py2
-rw-r--r--var/spack/packages/scr/package.py3
-rw-r--r--var/spack/packages/spindle/package.py5
6 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/cmake/package.py b/var/spack/packages/cmake/package.py
index ca6553df84..890af9baa9 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/cmake/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/cmake/package.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
from spack import *
class Cmake(Package):
+ """A cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of
+ tools designed to build, test and package software."""
homepage = 'https://www.cmake.org'
url = 'http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.10.2.tar.gz'
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/dyninst/package.py b/var/spack/packages/dyninst/package.py
index 069237f7ff..df19ac7bc0 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/dyninst/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/dyninst/package.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
from spack import *
class Dyninst(Package):
+ """API for dynamic binary instrumentation. Modify programs while they
+ are executing without recompiling, re-linking, or re-executing."""
homepage = "https://paradyn.org"
url = "http://www.dyninst.org/sites/default/files/downloads/dyninst/8.1.2/DyninstAPI-8.1.2.tgz"
list_url = "http://www.dyninst.org/downloads/dyninst-8.x"
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/launchmon/package.py b/var/spack/packages/launchmon/package.py
index b6773a85bc..bdf988bdd3 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/launchmon/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/launchmon/package.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
from spack import *
class Launchmon(Package):
+ """Software infrastructure that enables HPC run-time tools to
+ co-locate tool daemons with a parallel job."""
homepage = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmon"
url = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/launchmon/launchmon/1.0.1%20release/launchmon-1.0.1.tar.gz"
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/libunwind/package.py b/var/spack/packages/libunwind/package.py
index aeadc85eb3..239fcbcfd5 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/libunwind/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/libunwind/package.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
from spack import *
class Libunwind(Package):
+ """A portable and efficient C programming interface (API) to determine
+ the call-chain of a program."""
homepage = "http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/"
url = "http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/libunwind/libunwind-1.1.tar.gz"
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/scr/package.py b/var/spack/packages/scr/package.py
index d480dba62f..d456ecaba0 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/scr/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/scr/package.py
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
from spack import *
class Scr(Package):
+ """SCR caches checkpoint data in storage on the compute nodes of a
+ Linux cluster to provide a fast, scalable checkpoint/restart
+ capability for MPI codes"""
homepage = "https://computation-rnd.llnl.gov/scr"
url = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scalablecr/releases/scr-1.1-7.tar.gz"
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/spindle/package.py b/var/spack/packages/spindle/package.py
index bb0b74ab6f..fd59282ebb 100644
--- a/var/spack/packages/spindle/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/packages/spindle/package.py
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
from spack import *
class Spindle(Package):
+ """Spindle improves the library-loading performance of dynamically
+ linked HPC applications. Without Spindle large MPI jobs can
+ overload on a shared file system when loading dynamically
+ linked libraries, causing site-wide performance problems.
+ """
homepage = "https://computation-rnd.llnl.gov/spindle"
url = "https://github.com/hpc/Spindle/archive/v0.8.1.tar.gz"
list_url = "https://github.com/hpc/Spindle/releases"