Re: Symbolic Link Error

[Bill Hogan <bhogan@rahul.net>]

"LC" == Lucien Coste <lucien@gyptis.univ-mrs.fr> writes:

  LC> Rod Cole writes:

  >> ... error messages saying "Too Many Symbolic Links
  >> Encountered." ...

  LC> I think this is a case of circular list of symbolic links.
  LC> You can check with "pathchk".

  LC> L. Coste	lucien@cmi.univ-mrs.fr

   Thank you for this information, Lucien.

   Again I find myself facing the question: Given the name of a piece
of the Debian distribution, how do I find the Debian package it came
in?

  In this case, I see

# zgrep -i pathchk Contents.gz
/usr/bin/pathchk                  /debian.org/ftp/debian/debian
/usr/man/man1/pathchk.1           /debian.org/ftp/debian/debian
# zgrep -i pathchk Packages.gz
(nada)

   Why do all the lines in Contents.gz end in
`/debian.org/ftp/debian/debian'?

   Why not use that space to convey needed information?

   Bill