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Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories



On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:

On 11/29/2016 6:06 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

On Ter, 29 Nov 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:

On 11/28/2016 9:24 PM, Dave Thayer wrote:

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for
test utilities.
The closest heading I found was "Utilities"
[https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/].
The only relevant entry I found there was "memtester (4.3.0-3)".
I did not find "memtest86+" which I've used many times [It
was listed under
"Similar packages:" on
https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/memtester].
I found nothing for testing hard disks or video subsystems
<closest being
monitor resolution tests>.


p.d.o has a pretty good search function, this should point you
in the
right direction:
<https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=memtest>


That search function is not suitable. Back in the days when a
library's catalog was a physical set of card-files there were
typically three "file cabinets" - one each for title, author,
and subject cards. By analogy, p.d.o only has information from
"title cards". I need a subject index.


I don't think there exists exactly what you want. debtags[0]
might be close, but I'm not sure how is the tagging status going.
There might be packages with insufficient tags (or even none at
all).

[0]https://wiki.debian.org/Debtags
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. 

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