web installation: Make fwupd workaround instructions more portable
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The previous command only works on distributions using systemd
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This might result in it getting auto-restarted. |
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Yep, as I mentioned. Hopefully testing can prove otherwise. |
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The previous command for disabling the
fwupddaemon only works on distributions using systemd. I'm using Chimera Linux, which uses the featureful alternativedinit. Thankfully, thefwupdmgrtool packaged withfwupdhas aquitcommand that uses dbus to tell the daemon to quit, without making any assumptions about what init system is being used.This should not be merged without testing that this command works properly on all Linux distributions officially supported by the web installation tool. It's possible that some distributions have systemd configured to automatically restart the daemon if it quits.