[Bug 1281760] [NEW] FFE: curtin enhancements for 14.04

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

[Description]
Curtin is the fast path installer, used primarily by maas for installing a pre-made root filesystem onto disk.
These changes are necessary to put curtin closer to function-parity with d-i and/or to support MAAS development.


[Proposed Changes]
We expect to add the following features to curtin:
 * specifying through configuration a kernel to be installed into the image.  This will allow HWE kernels to be selected.
 * LVM/Raid support: basic support for configuring volumes in a raid or lvm
 * non-destructive install: currently curtin wipes all disks.  It needs to be able to be told to leave some disks un-modified
 * kexec support: support for using kexec to boot into the installed system rather than reboot
 * config-archive support: allow a single config file to contain multiple parts.  This will just look like cloud-init's "cloud-config-archive".  It all
ows multiple parties to add config without messing up others.

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

** Changed in: curtin (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-14.04

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  FFE: curtin enhancements for 14.04

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