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Re: Bug#457981: zsh-beta: slow release completion of apt-get

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From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 457981@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bug#457981: zsh-beta: slow release completion of apt-get
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:26:19 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:21:50PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> the completion of the release for apt-get install takes very long at me.
> I found in _apt apt-cache dump is used for getting the release names.
> This takes very long. Maybe you better use apt-cache policy.
> 
> % apt-cache policy |sed '/release/!d; s/.*a=//; s/,.*//'
> now
> unstable
> grml-testing
> unstable
> unstable
> experimental
> mplayer
> unstable
> unstable
> unstable

I think there was a reason we didn't do this, but I suppose if it's
significant, someone will yell.

Index: Completion/Debian/Command/_apt
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Debian/Command/_apt,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 _apt
--- Completion/Debian/Command/_apt	4 Jul 2007 02:59:46 -0000	1.13
+++ Completion/Debian/Command/_apt	28 Dec 2007 02:22:19 -0000
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
       _cache_invalid APT_releases ) && ! _retrieve_cache APT_releases;
   then
     _apt_releases=(
-${${${${(M)${(f)"$(apt-cache dump)"}:# #Archive:*}# #Archive: #}:#*\(null\)*}/ /}
+${${${${(M)${(f)"$(apt-cache policy)"}:#*release*}#*a=}%%,*}:#now}
     )
     typeset -U _apt_releases
     _store_cache APT_releases _apt_releases

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