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§ion=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 ;/