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.
Make systemd and ConsoleKit support an optional compile time flag
with both enabled by default. If both are used, the ifdef/elif will
ensure only the systemd calls are used so there's no conflict.
This is a large commit that removes all the providers and turns them into
plugins. I think having both providers _and_ plugins was super confusing.
Plugins are loaded at runtime so you could in theory develop a new plugin
without putting it in the fwupd source tree, although there are no installed
headers or PC files as I'm not sure it's a good idea at this stage.
This commit moves all the per-provider docs, tests, notes, debug dumps and test
data to plugin-specific directories -- these also allows the plugin author to
"own" more of the source tree so we don't enforce fu- prefixes and the style
guide everywhere.
This allows us to run the same action on all the plugins in the future, so we
could have a prepare(FuPlugin, FuDevice) and cleanup(FuPlugin, FuDevice) run
on *all* plugins, so doing an update using one plugin would allow us to work
around hardware quirks in other plugins.
If I've broken your out-of-tree provider it's trivial to port to the new API
with sed and a fixed up build file. If you need help please let me know.
This allows us to return multiple results from one file, for instance where the
firmware.cab file contains multiple metainfo.xml files.
This allows us to show all the entries in the firmware file, rather than
searching for the installed device that matches and falling back to just the
first listed item.
Under some circumstances a provider may want to prevent a user from
performing a flash without additional user interaction.
Providers can opt into this behavior by checking for
FWUPD_INSTALL_FLAG_FORCE in the update routine.
This allows us to match up the AppStream data we've parsed in gnome-software and the firmware update we've got from fwupd. This means we can get access to some of the data that fwupd doesn't care about, for instance the how-to-upgrade screenshots.
readlink() man page says that applications must not rely on it returning
null-terminated links. This commit switches it to use g_file_read_link()
instead that has much nicer API and shields us from readlink() oddities.
