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@@ -64,3 +64,12 @@ build within. As such it requires working user namespaces including a subuid
allocation and the suid tool `newuidmap`. Unlike other backends, it does not
need a chroot or base to be set up before. Given that there is no external
state, it allows supplying the mirror to be used via the `--mirror` option.
+
+mdbp-ssh
+--------
+
+This is a backend proxy that performs builds on remote hosts via ssh. On the
+remote side, it calls a separate non-backend `mdbp-streamapi`, that allows
+piping all of the relevant paramters through `stdin`, `stdout` and `stderr`.
+`mdbp-streamapi` calls into another backend to perform the build. As such, you
+need to pass both a host and a backend before passing the build description.