This allows several things, for instance:
* Adding or removing blacklisted plugins or devices
* Changing the idle timeout where allowed
...without a user needing to manually modify a configuration file.
This is intended for devices that it is not safe to immediately activate
the firmware. It may be called at a more convenient time instead.
Both fwupdmgr and fwupdtool support the feature.
- if called at runtime with fwupdmgr it uses the daemon
- during shutdown fwupdtool uses the pending.db to perform this feature.
Previously, the various install paths were obtained using get_option
as needed.
This patch unifies the directory selection inside the top-level meson
file as requested in https://github.com/hughsie/colord/pull/62.
* Meson >=0.41.0, (unreleased) polkit 0.114+ don't use data_dirs argument
* Meson >=0.41.0, older polkit, use local ITS rules with data_dirs argument
* Meson <0.41.0, any polkit, use custom policy building rules
Later on when meson 0.41.0+ and polkit 0.114+ is in many stable distros
this commit can be reverted and dependencies updated.
Fixes: #107
We used to do this dance to avoid reading the Option ROM on hardware by default
(some faulty hardware would crash...) but now we're doing the verify update in
the daemon there's no need to split this into two steps.
Fixes: https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/149
Automake and autoconf are impossible to fully understand and Meson now provides
everything we need for a much smaller, faster, and more understandable build.
See http://mesonbuild.com/ for more information.
This does not affect UEFI capsule updates as the signing is checked by the
machine itself. We don't know anything about the trust level at all because
NIST SP800-147 pretty much says we're not allowed to.
For BIOS or ColorHug updates however we really do need to request authentication
before downgrading or installing non-signed code.
At the moment only the Hughski Limited key is trusted for firmware, although I
hope in the future we can also include Red Hat, Microsoft, Intel, AMD and other
hardware vendors in that list too.
Fixes: https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/5
