This feature is turned on with the new fwupdtool option `--enable-json-state`
The intended use case is for ChromeOS to be able to save information about
devices on the system when `fwupdtool update` was run to display in the UX at
a later time.
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.
Two new arguments added to fwupdtool: `--prepare` and `--cleanup`
They are used only with the `install-blob` command
This makes sure that devices can get rebooted in dell-dock even if using
fwupdtool to install a single blob.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Now that there is actually support to load non-static information
(at least from fwupd perspective) it makes sense to support this
command in both tools.
This will perform updates with all currently present metadata.
It is "intended" for usage with local metadata repositories referring
to local files.
fwupdtool however does also support fetching a file from the web
and if the metadata refers to the file on the web it should also work
for that.
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*"
