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

On 11/29/2016 7:07 AM, Verde Denim wrote:



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.



???
Are you saying that Debtags is not a functional/functioning system?
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