bcfg2

We have a mercury server setup on VPS.net that is using multi-site to run multiple sites using the same Pressflow install. We recently ran into a problem with implementing our non-www to www canonical domain redirects. In the past we were able to uncomment the section of the .htaccess file included by Drupal to do these redirects because we were not using multi-site. Now that we are using multi-site we have tried to implement the redirects using apache vhosts but the redirect never seems to happen and it appears to be some kind of interference from Varnish that is keeping it from working.

This is probably more of a bcfg2 question but:

After installing the client from the bcfg2 server, I want to add a bunch of packages, eg git, phpmyadmin, locate, etc. What's the best way to add a set of packages to my server so that I don't need to do a bunch of apt-getting after every client installs?

Thanks

I want to give everyone a preview of what we're working on for Mercury 1.1: