During my work at the Diego Thomson we’re going to improve the network a bit. One of the things I want to incorporate is a network-wide configuration using . Because I want to make (re-)installation of single clients easy without using any fancy distribution tools, I want to incorporate some cfengine configuration into the (better known as ) installer.

We had some discussion about this on the mailing list and people generally seemed to like my idea. So I went to work writing a patch. It was quite some work. Especially building the ISO image took a while. And then testing it. And reinstalling the test system, because I had forgot a colon somewhere. And so on.

And this is my patch proposal, if anyone is interested: cfengine.patch. Or you may just want to follow the discussion on the Debian-Edu mailing list if you’re interested in that kind of stuff. ;-)