[Bug 1236531] [NEW] support running apt with eatmydata

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

During instance boot, cloud-init installs packages (if instructed by the user).
During instance boot, there is no state of the system that the user cares about.

I'd like to use eatmydata for apt-get install at that point, as it is
dramatically faster than apt-get even with --force-unsafe-io.

>From an ubuntu perspective, this change would mean:
 a.) depending on eatmydata
 b.) MIR for eatmydata
 c.) fixing eatmydata's relationship with sysvinit scripts.  The thing to fix there is that if you 'eatmydata apt-get install some-service' and some-service starts a daemon, the daemon will inherit the LD_PRELOAD which is most likely not desired.

** Affects: cloud-init
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: libeatmydata (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-14.02

** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: cloud-init
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Also affects: libeatmydata (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  support running apt with eatmydata

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