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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-02-15 14:00:33 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-02-15 14:11:07 +0100
commit74281436c529283d6f1a429d7a1000fd5903f09e (patch)
tree61c61acab8b30a185c25b32a8e7193f05a42e5f9 /gnu/packages/engineering.scm
parent0f46c5f5048426b464464f48800330b753765da7 (diff)
gnu: radare2: Improve description.
* gnu/packages/engineering.scm (radare2)[synopsis, description]: Re-write.
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@@ -1310,12 +1310,20 @@ bindings for Python, Java, OCaml and more.")
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
(home-page "https://radare.org/")
- (synopsis "Portable reversing framework")
+ (synopsis "Reverse engineering framework")
(description
- "Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline
-hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing
-binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb
-servers, ...")
+ "Radare2 is a complete framework for reverse-engineering, debugging, and
+analyzing binaries. It is composed of a set of small utilities that can be
+used together or independently from the command line.
+
+Radare2 is built around a scriptable disassembler and hexadecimal editor that
+support a variety of executable formats for different processors and operating
+systems, through multiple back ends for local and remote files and disk
+images.
+
+It can also compare (@dfn{diff}) binaries with graphs and extract information
+like relocation symbols. It is able to deal with malformed binaries, making
+it suitable for security research and analysis.")
(license license:lgpl3)))
(define-public asco