Still building the polkit fix. fwupd builds extremely slow while I am also building #67596.

The issue with the missing PolKit files in the installed tests:

Running test: fwupd/fwupdmgr.test
Getting the list of remotes...
PolicyKit files are missing, see https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/wiki/PolicyKit-files-are-missing
FAIL: fwupd/fwupdmgr.test (Child process exited with code 1)

is that fwupd now checks for presence of the polkit actions on the system:

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/blob/80e02dfe21068125399b8a8cb5cb870b59ccb58c/src/fu-util.c#L2196-L2206

The path is obtained from pkg-config:

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/blob/80e02dfe21068125399b8a8cb5cb870b59ccb58c/src/fu-common.c#L1038-L1043

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/blob/80e02dfe21068125399b8a8cb5cb870b59ccb58c/meson.build#L166-L170

so we will override it with a environment variable.

It will not affect the installation, since install_dir paths are hard-coded:

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/blob/80e02dfe21068125399b8a8cb5cb870b59ccb58c/policy/meson.build#L10

Note untested on aarch64, as hydra can't build ghc for it.

There will be a new release soon so we might want to wait fwupd/fwupd#1320

I also packaged gnome-firmware-updater: https://github.com/jtojnar/nixpkgs/tree/gnome-firmware-updater
But it is probably not suitable for inclusion yet.

There will be a new release soon so we might want to wait fwupd/fwupd#1320

Sounds fine by me, we should be sure to have it in the release though.

I also packaged gnome-firmware-updater: https://github.com/jtojnar/nixpkgs/tree/gnome-firmware-updater
But it is probably not suitable for inclusion yet.

You mean the tool is still WIP? I'd say the package could probably be committed, just not a part of any release set or module.

From the blog post:

At the moment it’s a seporate project and binary, as we’re still prototyping the UI and working out what kind of UX we want from a power user tool. It’s mostly complete and a few weeks away from it’s first release. When it does get an official release

so we will override it with a environment variable.

If you see a need to override this at runtime, can you please send a PR to look for the new variable? Or are you meaning only in the test suite you'll hardcode to a particular location?

@superm1 we override it at build time. The pkg-config variable works for finding a path to install polkit actions but, due to the way we install global data, polkit needs to look for it in a different path.

I'm fine waiting, but we may want to go ahead with this if there isn't a new release by Friday.

Merging as the release still did not happen.