This allows the daemon to set the base directory to store remotes.
This fixes issues with systemd where the installation prefix was set
to soemthing not writable such as `/usr/local` but systemd
`STATE_DIRECTORY` doesn't match up.
```
$ fwupdmgr refresh
Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz
Downloading… [***************************************] Less than one minute remaining…
Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware.xml.gz.asc
Failed to update metadata for lvfs: Error creating directory /usr/local/var/lib/fwupd/remotes.d: Read-only file system
```
It should also hopefully help with immutable systems.
Rather than wrapping every sync D-Bus call with a GTask helper (hundreds of
additional lines of code and dozens of new entrypoints in libfwupd) I think it
is best for client software wanting async operation just uses the D-Bus
interface. I consider it part of the API as much as the shared library and
I don't see it changing in a non-compatible way any time soon.
Exposing these already-exported symbols allows client software to use the
demarshalling functionality and to operate on the GObjects directly from an
existing GDBus async return value.
We need to show this agreement text in every fwupd frontend and exporting a
helper function allows us to do two things:
* Share the semi-complicated code (and fallback) to avoid copy and pasting
* Easily change the code in the future, for instance allowing merging Metainfo
and AppStream metadata without updating all the front ends with new logic.
In this mode, both the metadata and firmware is stored on the local filesystem
and distributed using a distribution system like OSTree.
Fixes https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/162
If something changes the cache behind our back (e.g. deleting or updating the
file) we need to reload the list of remotes so that the age is correctly shown.
Note: we have to transfer the mtime (not the age) when creating the GVariant,
as we want calls to fwupd_remote_get_age() to update the value without getting
the remote from the daemon each time.
Add the concept of 'remotes' that can dropped into /etc and used as firmware
metadata sources. This may be desirable when firmware is only accessable with
a valid support contract or from behind a VPN.
