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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 5:38 PM, Seeker wrote:
> 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
>
>

*THANK YOU* !
I haven't checked any of the links yet.
Your mention of "diskscan" got me browsing related man pages.
It got me rethinking my underlying problem which got me looking 
for packaged diagnostics in the first place. Must read them when 
fully awake ;/

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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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