Method

FwupdClientupdate_metadata

since: 1.0.0

Declaration [src]

gboolean
fwupd_client_update_metadata (
  FwupdClient* self,
  const gchar* remote_id,
  const gchar* metadata_fn,
  const gchar* signature_fn,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Updates the metadata. This allows a session process to download the metadata and metadata signing file to be passed into the daemon to be checked and parsed.

The remote_id allows the firmware to be tagged so that the remote can be matched when the firmware is downloaded.

Available since: 1.0.0

Parameters

remote_id

Type: const gchar*

The remote ID, e.g. lvfs-testing

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
metadata_fn

Type: const gchar*

The XML metadata filename.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
signature_fn

Type: const gchar*

The GPG signature file.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE for success.