diff --git a/pkgs/shells/bash/default.nix b/pkgs/shells/bash/default.nix
index 9e7090472880..0d5c440a105c 100644
--- a/pkgs/shells/bash/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/shells/bash/default.nix
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [bison] ++ stdenv.lib.optional interactive ncurses;
 
   meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/;
     description =
       "GNU Bourne-Again Shell, the de facto standard shell on Linux" +
         (if interactive then " (for interactive use)" else "");
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
index 9205612f3bce..7242f32f71c9 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/gnutar/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gnutar-1.19";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://gnu/tar/tar-1.19.tar.bz2;
     sha256 = "1d4wh27wlgryz3ld6gp6fn56knh7dmny93bmgixy07kvlxnx9466";
   };
+  
   patches = [./implausible.patch];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/;
+    description = "GNU implementation of the tar archiver";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
index 58d6e8b97078..0a2afd053729 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gzip-1.3.12";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.12.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "1bw7sm68xjlnlzgcx66hnw80ac1qqyvhw0vw27zilgbzbzh5nmiz";
   };
-	patches = [./gnulib-futimens.patch];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gzip.org/;
+    description = "The gzip compression program";
+  };
+  
+  patches = [./gnulib-futimens.patch];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
index 770a1dbfbc9a..8292c56f0ea8 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "coreutils-6.9";
+  name = "coreutils-6.10";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1c4p2kiy4m024qcl1przvphy8vhivf8jvclq6bjm1pjps5d8khl9";
+    url = mirror://gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.10.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0zpbxfl16sq45s53fxw43i9i8lrdcc845714c1j5f84zi13ka08x";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/;
+    description = "The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system";
   };
-  patches = [ ./gnulib-futimens.patch ] ;
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/default.nix
index 5aa28d0c451f..acfbf90d9464 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl, coreutils}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "findutils-4.2.31";
+  name = "findutils-4.2.32";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnu/findutils/findutils-4.2.31.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "01329mrgg7pc2069hdbcl45jzrzvi94nnv1zf2hcrcx0mj7lplz0";
+    url = mirror://gnu/findutils/findutils-4.2.32.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "05sj0154kl4mbqg7dcabiaa16snjv2ppfwwhcvl2zyn2yc28igc7";
   };
   buildInputs = [coreutils];
 
@@ -12,4 +12,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     # Note: the dietlibc patch is just to get findutils to compile.
     # The locate command probably won't work though.
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv ? isDietLibC) ./dietlibc-hack.patch;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/;
+    description = "The basic directory searching utilities of the GNU operating system";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/diffutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/diffutils/default.nix
index 3c0d5479ec55..44b7715607c8 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/diffutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/diffutils/default.nix
@@ -2,10 +2,17 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "diffutils-2.8.1";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.1.tar.gz;
     md5 = "71f9c5ae19b60608f6c7f162da86a428";
   };
+  
   /* If no explicit coreutils is given, use the one from stdenv. */
   buildInputs = [coreutils];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html;
+    description = "Commands for showing the differences between files (diff, cmp, etc.)";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
index b50b3aa9bd06..10dd08214aff 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gawk/default.nix
@@ -2,8 +2,14 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gawk-3.1.6";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.6.tar.bz2;
     sha256 = "0v6ba4hxfiiy3bny5japd3zmzxlh8vdkmswk96yngd6i1dddsgsi";
   };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/;
+    description = "GNU implementation of the AWK programming language";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
index 6979e4a1b01d..9b36dad6cfe2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gnugrep-2.5.3";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/grep-2.5.3-with-info.tar.bz2;
     sha256 = "0rg9dipksqzbg8v1xalib1n3xkkycc5r1l2gb9cxy1cz3cjip5l8";
   };
+  
   buildInputs = [pcre];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/;
+    description = "GNU implementation of the Unix grep command";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix
index c70cf0225706..2425147688b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix
@@ -2,10 +2,17 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "gnused-4.1.5";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://gnu/sed/sed-4.1.5.tar.gz;
     md5 = "7a1cbbbb3341287308e140bd4834c3ba";
   };
+  
   # !!! hack: this should go away in gnused > 4.1.5
   patches = [./gettext-fix.patch];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/;
+    description = "GNU implementation of the Unix sed command";
+  };
 }