diff --git a/nixos/modules/security/duosec.nix b/nixos/modules/security/duosec.nix index 9893e63fb24f..0e3a54325cad 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/security/duosec.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/security/duosec.nix @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ in default = false; description = '' Print the contents of /etc/motd to screen - after a succesful login. + after a successful login. ''; }; @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ in When $DUO_PASSCODE is non-empty, it will override autopush. The SSH client will need SendEnv DUO_PASSCODE in - its configuration, and the SSH server will similarily need + its configuration, and the SSH server will similarly need AcceptEnv DUO_PASSCODE. ''; }; diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/mail/mlmmj.nix b/nixos/modules/services/mail/mlmmj.nix index 637974f05cd1..db3a266d011f 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/mail/mlmmj.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/mail/mlmmj.nix @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ in enable = true; recipientDelimiter= "+"; extraMasterConf = '' - mlmmj unix - n n - - pipe flags=ORhu user=mlmmj argv=${pkgs.mlmmj}/bin/mlmmj-recieve -F -L ${spoolDir}/$nextHop + mlmmj unix - n n - - pipe flags=ORhu user=mlmmj argv=${pkgs.mlmmj}/bin/mlmmj-receive -F -L ${spoolDir}/$nextHop ''; extraAliases = concatMapStrings (alias cfg.listDomain) cfg.mailLists; diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix index d9c165970eca..0a06291da2a4 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ in { enable = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; - description = "Wherther to enable cadvisor service."; + description = "Whether to enable cadvisor service."; }; host = mkOption { diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/statsd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/statsd.nix index 942ce72f6a36..7d7ca27bb2f0 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/statsd.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/statsd.nix @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ in }; mgmt_address = mkOption { - description = "Address to run managment TCP interface on"; + description = "Address to run management TCP interface on"; default = "127.0.0.1"; type = types.str; }; @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ in }; backends = mkOption { - description = "List of backends statsd will use for data persistance"; + description = "List of backends statsd will use for data persistence"; default = ["graphite"]; example = ["graphite" pkgs.nodePackages."statsd-influxdb-backend"]; type = types.listOf (types.either types.str types.package); diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/nfsd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/nfsd.nix index 9b317e968849..33b7ec3d9f1c 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/nfsd.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/nfsd.nix @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ in default = null; example = 4002; description = '' - Use fixed port for rpc.mountd, usefull if server is behind firewall. + Use fixed port for rpc.mountd, useful if server is behind firewall. ''; }; diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/i2pd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/i2pd.nix index d0127fd3f75e..95b0ae59ff3c 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/i2pd.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/i2pd.nix @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ in type = types.int; default = 80; description = '' - Port to forward incoming trafic to. 80 by default. + Port to forward incoming traffic to. 80 by default. ''; }; keyFile = mkOption { @@ -195,4 +195,4 @@ in }; }; } -# \ No newline at end of file +# diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix index 65aa87be44cc..c1f945773e23 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ in default = false; description = '' - Whether to enable the Tox DHT boostrap daemon. + Whether to enable the Tox DHT bootstrap daemon. ''; }; @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ in default = ""; description = '' - Configuration for boostrap daemon. + Configuration for bootstrap daemon. See and . ''; diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/zope2.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/zope2.nix index 21117118457d..bbe4d10f83d0 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/zope2.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/zope2.nix @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ let http_address = mkOption { default = "localhost:8080"; type = types.string; - description = "Give a port and adress for the HTTP server."; + description = "Give a port and address for the HTTP server."; }; user = mkOption { diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd.nix index 05f8c8009bfd..cd7f2ed7b934 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd.nix @@ -695,21 +695,21 @@ in default = {}; type = types.attrsOf types.optionSet; options = [ linkOptions ]; - description = "Definiton of systemd network links."; + description = "Definition of systemd network links."; }; systemd.network.netdevs = mkOption { default = {}; type = types.attrsOf types.optionSet; options = [ netdevOptions ]; - description = "Definiton of systemd network devices."; + description = "Definition of systemd network devices."; }; systemd.network.networks = mkOption { default = {}; type = types.attrsOf types.optionSet; options = [ networkOptions networkConfig ]; - description = "Definiton of systemd networks."; + description = "Definition of systemd networks."; }; systemd.network.units = mkOption { diff --git a/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/nfs.nix b/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/nfs.nix index 75c4f93c6917..79de6556f251 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/nfs.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/nfs.nix @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ in default = null; example = 4000; description = '' - Use fixed port for rpc.statd, usefull if NFS server is behind firewall. + Use fixed port for rpc.statd, useful if NFS server is behind firewall. ''; }; lockdPort = mkOption { @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ in example = 4001; description = '' Use fixed port for NFS lock manager kernel module (lockd/nlockmgr), - usefull if NFS server is behind firewall. + useful if NFS server is behind firewall. ''; }; }; diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix index 42986aa3e033..33c64cc890e0 100644 --- a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix +++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ in Networking-related command-line options that should be passed to qemu. The default is to use userspace networking (slirp). - If you override this option, be adviced to keep + If you override this option, be advised to keep ''${QEMU_NET_OPTS:+,$QEMU_NET_OPTS} (as seen in the default) to keep the default runtime behaviour. ''; diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix index c414992a12dd..f47c8fa2eec7 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/transcode/default.nix @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { enableParallelBuilding = true; meta = with stdenv.lib; { - description = "Suite of command line utilities for transcoding video and audio codecs, and for converting beween different container formats"; + description = "Suite of command line utilities for transcoding video and audio codecs, and for converting between different container formats"; homepage = http://www.transcoding.org/; license = licenses.lgpl2Plus; platforms = platforms.linux; diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/sqliteman/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/sqliteman/default.nix index 803dfe075c19..f655a0f8c260 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/sqliteman/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/sqliteman/default.nix @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { ''; meta = with stdenv.lib; { - description = "Sqliteman is simple but powerfull Sqlite3 GUI database manager."; + description = "A simple but powerful Sqlite3 GUI database manager"; homepage = http://sqliteman.yarpen.cz/; license = licenses.gpl2Plus; platforms = platforms.linux; diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-bz/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-bz/default.nix index 4c4ff62901e5..4015867b0eb5 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-bz/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-bz/default.nix @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { git-bz is a tool for integrating the Git command line with the Bugzilla bug-tracking system. Operations such as attaching patches to bugs, applying patches in bugs to your current tree, and closing bugs - once you've pushed the fixes publically can be done completely from + once you've pushed the fixes publicly can be done completely from the command line without having to go to your web browser. Authentication for git-bz is done by reading the cookies for the diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/shotcut/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/shotcut/default.nix index 484e28972cb2..9ad739a361d7 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/video/shotcut/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/video/shotcut/default.nix @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { meta = with stdenv.lib; { description = "A free, open source, cross-platform video editor"; longDescription = '' - An offical binary for Shotcut, which includes all the + An official binary for Shotcut, which includes all the dependencies pinned to specific versions, is provided on http://shotcut.org. diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix index fdb1195bb827..915b54666346 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ then "macos-i386" else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-darwin" then "macos-x86_64" - else abort "no snapshot to boostrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)"; + else abort "no snapshot to bootstrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)"; target = if stdenv.system == "i686-linux" then "i686-unknown-linux-gnu" @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ then "i686-apple-darwin" else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-darwin" then "x86_64-apple-darwin" - else abort "no snapshot to boostrap for this platform (missing target triple"; + else abort "no snapshot to bootstrap for this platform (missing target triple"; meta = with stdenv.lib; { homepage = http://www.rust-lang.org/; diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix index f16a39e6ab0a..bf9b645c8f56 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { meta = { homepage = http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/; - description = "DOM C library developped for the Gnome project"; + description = "DOM C library developed for the Gnome project"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21Plus; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.roconnor ]; broken = true; diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix index 9ae1a5cf88a3..98f6511f3917 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { Main features: * Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology. - * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data. + * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation data. * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation. * Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries. * C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license. diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix index db4af40afbd4..2b4be7ae230e 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { meta = { description = "A library for OS-independent CD-ROM and CD image access"; longDescription = '' - GNU libcdio is a library for OS-idependent CD-ROM and + GNU libcdio is a library for OS-independent CD-ROM and CD image access. It includes a library for working with ISO-9660 filesystems (libiso9660), as well as utility programs such as an audio CD player and an extractor. diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix index 02dd10841c16..4188306128e1 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { meta = { description = "A library for OS-independent CD-ROM and CD image access"; longDescription = '' - GNU libcdio is a library for OS-idependent CD-ROM and + GNU libcdio is a library for OS-independent CD-ROM and CD image access. It includes a library for working with ISO-9660 filesystems (libiso9660), as well as utility programs such as an audio CD player and an extractor. diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix index f50331ba684a..dfdb86901c2c 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec { reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands. - The history facilites are also placed into a separate library, + The history facilities are also placed into a separate library, the History library, as part of the build process. The History library may be used without Readline in applications which desire its capabilities. diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix index ea459f291b36..98ebcdabebeb 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands. - The history facilites are also placed into a separate library, + The history facilities are also placed into a separate library, the History library, as part of the build process. The History library may be used without Readline in applications which desire its capabilities. diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix index 02e7dc24159f..daf716296a17 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { provides a platform independent framework for using packages of Scheme procedures and syntax. As distributed, SLIB contains useful packages for all Scheme implementations. Its catalog can be transparently - extended to accomodate packages specific to a site, implementation, + extended to accommodate packages specific to a site, implementation, user, or directory. SLIB supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK 3.0, Gambit 4.0, Guile, JScheme, Kawa, diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix index 9b08b8d5d906..a85f8a6b11cf 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { migrated their SunRPC library to a TI-RPC (Transport Independent RPC) implementation. This implementation allows the support of other transports than UDP and TCP over IPv4. FreeBSD provides a - TI-RPC library ported from NetBSD with improvments. This library + TI-RPC library ported from NetBSD with improvements. This library already supports IPv6. So, the FreeBSD release 5.2.1 TI-RPC has been ported to replace the SunRPC of the glibc. ''; diff --git a/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix index 1f54d132dcc7..8c0854ef3de4 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { }; meta = with stdenv.lib; { - description = "AVR developement environment including binutils, avr-gcc and avr-libc"; + description = "AVR development environment including binutils, avr-gcc and avr-libc"; # I've tried compiling the packages separately.. too much hassle. This just works. Fine. license = ["GPL" "LGPL"]; # see single packages .. homepage = []; # dito diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix index 77cf0638255f..265b94392b46 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { meta = with stdenv.lib; { homepage = http://ocsigen.org/tyxml/; - description = "A library that makes it almost impossible for your OCaml programs to generate wrong XML ouput, using static typing"; + description = "A library that makes it almost impossible for your OCaml programs to generate wrong XML output, using static typing"; license = licenses.lgpl21; platforms = ocaml.meta.platforms; maintainers = with maintainers; [ diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix index 04eaec9daefe..00bf4aa746a6 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ rec { then "i686-apple-darwin" else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-darwin" then "x86_64-apple-darwin" - else throw "no snapshot to boostrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)"; + else throw "no snapshot to bootstrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)"; snapshotHash = if stdenv.system == "i686-linux" then "4dea04e278192c5409f43794a98f20a8f59df2d9" diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix index 4970d641643f..dc846acb5005 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { ocp-build is a build system for OCaml application, based on simple descriptions of packages. ocp-build combines the descriptions of packages, and optimize the parallel compilation of files depending on - the number of cores and the automatically-infered dependencies + the number of cores and the automatically-inferred dependencies between source files. ''; license = licenses.gpl3; diff --git a/pkgs/games/fairymax/default.nix b/pkgs/games/fairymax/default.nix index 85fbd2d6a3b0..3ae4ee7f2057 100644 --- a/pkgs/games/fairymax/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/games/fairymax/default.nix @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { A version of micro-Max that reads the piece description from a file fmax.ini, so that arbitrary fairy pieces can be implemented. This version (4.8J) supports up to 15 piece types, - and board sizes upto 12x8 board. A Linux port exists in the + and board sizes up to 12x8. A Linux port exists in the format of a debian package. ''; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.free ; diff --git a/pkgs/games/hedgewars/default.nix b/pkgs/games/hedgewars/default.nix index 3dbc86a73784..3768375d6259 100644 --- a/pkgs/games/hedgewars/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/games/hedgewars/default.nix @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { ''; meta = with stdenv.lib; { - description = "Turn-based strategy artillery game similiar to Worms"; + description = "Turn-based strategy artillery game similar to Worms"; homepage = http://hedgewars.org/; license = licenses.gpl2; longDescription = '' diff --git a/pkgs/games/openttd/default.nix b/pkgs/games/openttd/default.nix index d8ae07705c63..afef33cce2d3 100644 --- a/pkgs/games/openttd/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/games/openttd/default.nix @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { In multiplayer networked mode, players may: - play competitively as different businesses - - play cooperatively controling the same business + - play cooperatively controlling the same business - observe as spectators ''; homepage = http://www.openttd.org/; diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/stella/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/stella/default.nix index d26b5281efa5..198226c759a5 100644 --- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/stella/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/stella/default.nix @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { the GNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, and is currently maintained by Stephen Anthony. - As of its 3.5 release, Stella is officialy donationware. + As of its 3.5 release, Stella is officially donationware. ''; homepage = http://stella.sourceforge.net/; license = licenses.gpl2; diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/uae/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/uae/default.nix index 0fa5a08d2dc8..85fc6df9520f 100644 --- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/uae/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/uae/default.nix @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { buildInputs = [ pkgconfig gtk alsaLib SDL ]; meta = { - description = "Ultimate/Unix/Unusuable Amiga Emulator"; + description = "Ultimate/Unix/Unusable Amiga Emulator"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus; homepage = http://www.amigaemulator.org; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.sander ]; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/X11/sselp/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/X11/sselp/default.nix index 6ef7128dd4ca..b0bf8a101696 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/X11/sselp/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/X11/sselp/default.nix @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { meta = { homepage = "http://tools.suckless.org/sselp"; - description = "Prints the X selection to stdout, usefull in scripts"; + description = "Prints the X selection to stdout, useful in scripts"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit; maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.magnetophon ]; platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/kzipmix/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/kzipmix/default.nix index bff8068db609..f768189040b5 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/compression/kzipmix/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/kzipmix/default.nix @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { ''; meta = { - description = "A tool that agressively optimizes the sizes of Zip archives"; + description = "A tool that aggressively optimizes the sizes of Zip archives"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.unfree; homepage = http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.sander ]; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/pngout/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/pngout/default.nix index ff2a18c9fedc..471823ed9235 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/pngout/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/pngout/default.nix @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { ''; meta = { - description = "A tool that agressively optimizes the sizes of PNG images"; + description = "A tool that aggressively optimizes the sizes of PNG images"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.unfree; homepage = http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.sander ]; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/autojump/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/autojump/default.nix index a92b4ae3b1bb..a94ad14ca229 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/misc/autojump/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/autojump/default.nix @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ in works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The jstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little - bit before the database becomes useable. Once your database + bit before the database becomes usable. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can “jump” to a directory by typing "j dirspec", where dirspec is a few characters of the directory you want to jump to. It will jump to the most used diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/unclutter/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/unclutter/default.nix index 542530532de0..d97ba727bae5 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/misc/unclutter/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/unclutter/default.nix @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { longDescription = '' Unclutter hides your X mouse cursor when you do not need it, to prevent it from getting in the way. You have only to move the mouse to restore - the mouse cursor. Unclutter is very usefull in tiling wm's where you do + the mouse cursor. Unclutter is very useful in tiling wm's where you do not need the mouse often. Just run it from your .bash_profile like that: diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/bwm-ng/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/bwm-ng/default.nix index 4d18c4adb373..c7376ad47b42 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/networking/bwm-ng/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/bwm-ng/default.nix @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { Info This was influenced by the old bwm util written by Barney (barney@freewill.tzo.com) which had some issues with faster interfaces and was very simple. Since i had almost all code done anyway for other projects, i decided to create my own version. - I actually dont know if netstat input is usefull at all. I saw this elsewhere, so i added it. Its target is "netstat 1.42 (2001-04-15)" linux or Free/Open/netBSD. If there are other formats i would be happy to add them. + I actually don't know if netstat input is useful at all. I saw this elsewhere, so i added it. Its target is "netstat 1.42 (2001-04-15)" linux or Free/Open/netBSD. If there are other formats i would be happy to add them. (from homepage) ''; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/gnupg/20.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/gnupg/20.nix index 58a7cb7e34c0..7bace2ef1c41 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/security/gnupg/20.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/security/gnupg/20.nix @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a - versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all + versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/haveged/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/haveged/default.nix index 91949cf0893a..8f332a530071 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/security/haveged/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/security/haveged/default.nix @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { random number generator based upon an adaptation of the HAVEGE algorithm. Haveged was created to remedy low-entropy conditions in the Linux random device that can occur under some workloads, especially on headless servers. Current development - of haveged is directed towards improving overall reliablity and adaptability while minimizing + of haveged is directed towards improving overall reliability and adaptability while minimizing the barriers to using haveged for other tasks. ''; homepage = http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/security/opensc-dnie-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/security/opensc-dnie-wrapper/default.nix index b36d99f8ebf0..8003073159a9 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/security/opensc-dnie-wrapper/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/security/opensc-dnie-wrapper/default.nix @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { description = "Access to the opensc tools and firefox using the Spanish national ID SmartCard"; longDescription = '' Opensc needs a special configuration and special drivers to use the SmartCard - the Spanish governement provides to the citizens as ID card. + the Spanish government provides to the citizens as ID card. Some wrapper scripts take care for the proper opensc configuration to be used, in order to access the certificates in the SmartCard through the opensc tools or firefox. Opensc will require a pcscd daemon running, managing the access to the card reader. diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/multitran/mtutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/multitran/mtutils/default.nix index b03b1b110c4b..ca65c567c661 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/text/multitran/mtutils/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/text/multitran/mtutils/default.nix @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { meta = { homepage = http://multitran.sourceforge.net/; - description = "Multitran: simple command line utilities for dictionary maintainance"; + description = "Multitran: simple command line utilities for dictionary maintenance"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2; maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [viric]; platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux; diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix index 1d1746e9a4b3..f6fc640eb3f8 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/latex2html/default.nix @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { meta = { homepage = "http://www.latex2html.org/"; - description = "Convertor written in Perl that converts LaTeX documents to HTML"; + description = "Converter written in Perl that converts LaTeX documents to HTML"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus; }; diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix index 812af3e4c3e7..813284ede8f8 100644 --- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix +++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix @@ -5904,7 +5904,7 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; { buildInputs = [ TestFatal ]; propagatedBuildInputs = [ ClassMethodModifiers DevelGlobalDestruction ImportInto ModuleRuntime RoleTiny strictures ]; meta = { - description = "Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatiblity)"; + description = "Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)"; license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ]; }; }; diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix index ffd81c232a36..77e380105c84 100644 --- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix +++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ let meta = with stdenv.lib; { homepage = https://github.com/nicolargo/batinfo; - description = "A simple Python lib to retreive battery information"; + description = "A simple Python lib to retrieve battery information"; license = licenses.lgpl3; platforms = platforms.all; maintainers = [ maintainers.koral ]; @@ -12098,7 +12098,7 @@ let buildInputs = with self; [ requests gevent ]; meta = { - description = "GRequests allows you to use Requests with Gevent to make asyncronous HTTP Requests easily."; + description = "GRequests allows you to use Requests with Gevent to make asynchronous HTTP Requests easily."; homepage = https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests; license = "bsd"; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.matejc ];