Void linux / non systemd support

[KoalaV2]

Please add support for non systemd linux distros!

[VPetukhov]

Yes, please!

[void-m4110c]

Bump

[SimPilotAdamT]

Bump!

[SimPilotAdamT]

To add something a bit more constructive, it seems like the fprintd-clients's dependency of systemd-libs is the reason why this doesn't support distro's like Artix/Void Linux.

[Midou36O]

I got it to work

The steps that worked for me was:

1. Manually clone the repo to /opt/python-validity
   • Go to the repo and run python setup.py install --prefix=/usr
2. Get the PKGBUILD of open-fprintd
3. Remove fprintd-clients (line 9) from the dependencies.
4. Run makepkg -si and let it install the "open-fprintd" package.
5. Write an init script for your init of your choice, in my case it was OpenRC:
   • Filename: open-fprintd

#!/usr/bin/openrc-run                                                                        
                                                                                             
supervisor=supervise-daemon                                                                  
command="env PYTHONPATH=/opt/python-validity /opt/python-validity/dbus_service/dbus-service" 
command_args=""                                                                              
pidfile=                                                                                     
                                                                                             
name="open-fprintd"                                                                          
description="Open FPrint Daemon"                                                             

• (This is very rough so please tell me the proper stuff to fix my init script file.)

6. Place the init file in /etc/init.d and chmod +x it
7. Install fprintd (pacman -S fprintd)
8. Start the init file you just made using rc-service open-fprintd start
9. If it works, add it to your default init runlevel rc-update add open-fprintd
10. Run fprintd-enroll and hope it works :)

Everything should be done as root with some obvious exceptions.