Function

FwupdPlugincommon_firmware_builder

since: 0.9.7

Declaration [src] 

GBytes*
fu_common_firmware_builder (
  GBytes* bytes,
  const gchar* script_fn,
  const gchar* output_fn,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Builds a firmware file using tools from the host session in a bubblewrap jail. Several things happen during build:

  1. The bytes data is untarred to a temporary location
  2. A bubblewrap container is set up
  3. The startup.sh script is run inside the container
  4. The firmware.bin is extracted from the container
  5. The temporary location is deleted.

Available since: 0.9.7

Parameters

bytes

Type: GBytes

The data to use.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
script_fn

Type: const gchar*

Name of the script to run in the tarball, e.g. startup.sh

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

Type: const gchar*

Name of the generated firmware, e.g. firmware.bin

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

A new GBytes, or NULL for error.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.