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-This extension module allow to use ssh package to perform distributed copy
-of package over network. This is more a sample module which is somewhat slow
-to run distant script.
+This extension module allows to use an ssh connection to perform distributed copy
+of rpm packages over a network.
To use this module, edit /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg and add an alias line as
-follow :
+follows :
<name>:ssh:<node list separated by ':'>
or
<name>:ssh(<default media>):<node list separated by ':'>
-where <name> is alias name parameter of --parallel options of urpmi,
- <default media> is default --media parameter for this alias,
- <node list separated by ':'> is list of node, for example "node1:node2:
- ...:nodeN".
-
-For any more information, please send mail to <fpons@mandrakesoft.com>.
+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".