[$] Reducing the bandwidth needs for fwupd

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)provides a repository where vendors can upload firmware updates that can beaccessed by the fwupdfirmware update daemon on Linux systems. That mechanism allows users to keepthe hardware components of their systems up to date with the latest firmwarereleases, but it has gotten so popular that the daily metadata queries are starting to swamp the LVFScontent delivery network (CDN) server. So Richard Hughes, who developedfwupd and LVFS, suggestedthat it would make sense to start looking at ways to reduce that burden;the idea was discussed in a recent thread on the Fedora devel mailing list.