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Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories]

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On 11/30/2016 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/29/2016 8:52 AM, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 08:07:47 AM Verde Denim wrote:
>>> On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>> I just looked at the intro of
>>>> https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html .
>>>> It appears that its goal is to solve my problem. I see a day of
>>>> interesting reading ahead.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> I'm afraid the days of the published OS document containing the
>>> permutated index are long gone.
>>
>>  From this reply, I guessed that debtags was a dead project (the page
>> referred
>> to apparently orignated in 2005, iiuc).
>>
>> But, I dug a little deeper and found the following, which has a
>> copyright of
>> 2011-2013, and may be fairly useful.
>>
>> I went to:
>>
>>   https://debtags.debian.org/search/
>>
>> and, for kicks, queried on "diagnostic" and got 92 hits.
>>
>> The page / project appears to still allow people to add new tags,
>> although I
>> didn't try that.
>>
>> Let me (us) know how you make out if you try it...
>
> I didn't find it satisfying. That is not to say the search execution had
> any inherent problems. There just didn't seem to be an appropriate
> tag(s) for my goals.
>
> I've been so focused on crating a fully custom install of Debian on a
> flash drive that I forgot having a batch of physical CDs with free [as
> in beer] diagnostic software. I'll check which of them are FOSS and
> search the repositories for them. If there enough, I'll look into
> tweaking their tags so they can be found.
>
> A second path is looking at descriptions of the software on these CDs
> and come up with a better set of keywords than I've been using.
>
> Now to continue torture testing my laptop that no longer wants to run
> Jessie ;/
>
>
>
Did you find your way to axi-cache?

It's part of thhe xapian / apt-xapian-index stuff.

Still limited, but may give better results than using debtags directory.

The packages descriptions don't always have the information either.

http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2010/debian/axi-cache/

https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/29/how-to-find-the-right-debian-packages-high-level-search-interface/

So knowing hard drives have SMART and there are self-test functions, I
tried something like

axi-cache search smart hardware::storage

if my memory is correct.

In the time I spent with axi-cache I did not find a way to get it to
show diskscan without being specific that did not include a bunch of
scanner and other things the have scan in the name/tag/description.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=diskscan&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all

Later, Seeker

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Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-28 13:30 +0100
  Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Dave Thayer <debian1633317.dmthayer@recursor.net> - 2016-11-29 05:00 +0100
    Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
      Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
        Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 13:40 +0100
          Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-29 14:00 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 15:20 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
          Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Verde Denim <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 16:00 +0100
              A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in  official Debian repositories] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available  in official Debian repositories] Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-01 00:40 +0100
                Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available  in official Debian repositories] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-01 04:50 +0100
      Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-29 18:40 +0100

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