[Bug 1551636] [NEW] MaaS on older releases need support for newer curtin images

[Stefan Bader]

Public bug reported:

This came up when we chatted about problems using Xenial images on Maas
this morning. And it will likely become a big problem when Xenial is
released. Server environments do not change that quickly, so we should
expect hosts running Trusty (cloud-archive or maas from the PPA) trying
to provision Xenial.

This currently is broken because the smarts of the curtin installer
seems to have changed and the rootfs-tgz (the base filesystem used) no
longer comes with the kernel (and modules) pre-installed. But the init
phase of older curtin versions does not include steps to download a
kernel from the archive. So we end up with a client that starts the
final reboot without any kernel installed.

** Affects: curtin (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Critical
         Status: Confirmed

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  MaaS on older releases need support for newer curtin images

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