mc-package(1)

💖 NAME 💖

mc-package — the girlypop little tool that installs, uninstalls and queries Operating System packages. bestie it literally does all three, no cap 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mc-package [options] action package

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen. mc-package installs, uninstalls and queries Operating System packages. that's the whole vibe. she's a package manager girlie across your whole collective and she's iconic for it 💅

Usage, in all her glory:

mc-package [options] action package

🎀 the options (main character list) 🎀

• --np, --no-progress — do not show the progress bar. if you're the kind of person who can't watch the bar fill up, this one's for you 🙈
• -1, --one — send the request to only one discovered node. just one. a single lil guy 🦋
• --limit-nodes, --ln [COUNT] — send the request to only a subset of nodes, and COUNT can be a percentage. so like, a lil slice of the fleet ✨

💜 Common Options 💜

• -T, --target COLLECTIVE — target messages to a specific sub collective. aim her at one little squad 🎯
• -c, --config FILE — load configuration from FILE rather than the default. (the original spells it configuratuion, and honestly? we love her for it 😭)
• --dt, --discovery-timeout SECONDS — timeout for doing discovery. how long we wait to find everybody ⏳
• -t, --timeout SECONDS — timeout for calling remote agents. how long we wait on the phone fr fr 📞
• -q, --quiet — do not be verbose. shhh. inside voices 🤫
• -v, --verbose — be verbose. yap mode: ACTIVATED 🗣️
• -h, --help — display this screen. the classic ✨

🦋 Host Filters 🦋

• -W, --with FILTER — combined classes and facts filter. both at once, multitasking queen 👑
• -F, --wf, --with-fact fact=val — match hosts with a certain fact. fact=val, exactly like that 💖
• -C, --wc, --with-class CLASS — match hosts with a certain config management class 🎀
• -A, --wa, --with-agent AGENT — match hosts with a certain agent 🤖
• -I, --wi, --with-identity IDENT — match hosts with a certain configured identity. know them by their IDENT 💅

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this manpage was written by Juan L. Negron <juan@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others, she's generous like that 🫶). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and package 💖✨🌸

signing off from mc-package, dated 21 June 2011, manual section mc-package(1) 🎀