When developing code it's really convenient to only run the new plugin. This
means you don't have to wait for the other hardware to initialize and there
are no side-effects from other plugins when installing firmware.
You can specify multiple plugins as globs, for instance:
fwupdtool get-devices \
--plugin-whitelist wacom \
--plugin-whitelist "thunderbolt*"
When using failed to open firmware.cab we pass in a device ID of '*' which
tells the daemon to update anything that matches. The current implementation
will fail in two ways:
* If duplicate hardware is installed (for instance two Unifying receivers) then
only the first matching device will be updated.
* If the firmware archive contains two different images then we only try and
upgrade the first device that matches. This means we're unable to update
composite devices using one firmware file.
To fix both issues, carefully build a list of tasks that can be processed using
the given firmware and installed devices, request authentication using all the
different action IDs, then upgrade all the devices one-at-a-time.
Based on a patch by Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>, many thanks.
In some cases firmware can only be installed with an up to date GUsb (e.g. with
some STM-DFU hardware) or with a new version of fwupdate (e.g. any UEFI
UpdateCapsule without a capsule header).
We should be able to match against other software versions like we can the
fwupd version, e.g.
<requires>
<id compare="ge" version="0.9.2">org.freedesktop.fwupd</id>
<id compare="ge" version="11">com.redhat.fwupdate</id>
</requires>
Also, rather than checking each requirement we know about on the component,
check each requirement on the component about things we know. This ensures we
don't allow firmware to be installs that requires for instance fwupdate 22 when
the runtime version is only being added in fwupdate 12 and up.
This means the following is now an error that will fail to allow the firmware
to be installed:
<requires>
<firmware>doesnotexist</firmware>
<some_future_tag>also_unknown</some_future_tag>
</requires>
Also add a lot of self tests to test the various new failure modes.
Fixes https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/issues/463
This moves more functionality out of the engine, and will allow us to add some
cleverness to the device list to allow the FuDevice to be shared between
different plugins.
The idea here is that we move a lot of the 'meat' out of fu-main into the
engine. This also lets us simplify a lot of things and ensures the user
authentication is simple and easy to audit.
