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Bug#760144: discover-pkginstall hangs when using virtual box



[Wolfgang Schweer]
>  3357 pts/0    S+     0:00 log-output -t in-target chroot /target discover-pkginstall
>  3358 pts/0    S+     0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/discover-pkginstall
>  3380 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress --no-progress -- aptitude install -q -y virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
>  3382 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress --no-progress -- aptitude install -q -y virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
>  3383 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress --no-progress -- aptitude install -q -y virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
> 

As we discussed on IRC, I suspect this is caused by
discover-pkginstall using aptitude instead of apt-get, and aptitude
presenting a prompt that is not shown to the user.  Try replacing
aptitude with apt-get in discover-pkginstall.

I'm pushing a fix as we speak. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen


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