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| -rw-r--r-- | urpm/README.ssh | 18 |
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diff --git a/urpm/README.ssh b/urpm/README.ssh index 353e735a..680f9fd8 100644 --- a/urpm/README.ssh +++ b/urpm/README.ssh @@ -1,13 +1,17 @@ -This extension module allows to use an ssh connection to perform distributed copy -of rpm packages over a network. +This extension module allows to use an ssh connection to perform distributed +copy and installation of rpm packages over a network. To use this module, edit /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg and add an alias line as follows : <name>:ssh:<node list separated by ':'> or <name>:ssh(<default media>):<node list separated by ':'> -where <name> is the "alias name" parameter of --parallel options of the - urpm* tools, - <default media> is the default --media parameter for this alias, - <node list separated by ':'> is a list of nodes (network hosts), - for example "node1:node2: ...:nodeN". +where: + <name> is the "alias name" parameter of --parallel options of the + urpm* tools, + <default media> is the default --media parameter for this alias, + <node list separated by ':'> is a list of nodes (network hosts), + for example "node1:node2: ...:nodeN". + +You can specify 'localhost' as a node name if you want to include +the server in the list of machines to be upgraded. |