diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.53.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.53.bb
index 5bb50f7..b120c1f 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.53.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl_2.2.53.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Utilities for managing POSIX Access Control Lists"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl/"
+DESCRIPTION = "ACL allows you to provide different levels of access to files \
+and folders for different users."
 SECTION = "libs"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2+"
diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
index 0c3330a..97bca46 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "Utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes"
+DESCRIPTION = "A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem \
+objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command \
+is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of \
+the same name."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/"
 SECTION = "libs"