Bug 379573

Summary:	pam_thinkfinger not preselected for installation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	Stefan Schubert <schubi>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	funtasyspace, ma, msvec
Version:	Alpha 3plus
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	y2log

Description Jiří Suchomel 2008-04-14 07:12:02 UTC

(originally in bug 378737)

The package pam_thinkfinger should actually already be installed (or at least
selected for installation, but I don't expect Michal manually unselected it)
because of its

Supplements:    modalias(usb:v0483p2016d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*)

(see bug 378757)


If it wasn't installed, it is probably another zypp bug.

I booted 11.0 Alpha3+ on x86_64 machine and these packages are preselected for
installation:

libthinkfinger
libthinkfinger-32bit
pam_thinkfinger-32bit,

but not pam_thinkfinger! I don't know if this is bug in packaging (Timo) or in
solver (Schubi), please check.

Comment 1 Jiří Suchomel 2008-04-14 07:13:09 UTC

Created attachment 207658 [details]
y2log

Comment 2 Michael Andres 2008-04-17 15:11:30 UTC

Evaluation of hardware dependencies requires libzypp-4.11 (alpha3+ is 4.8).

Comment 3 Jörg Hermsdorf 2008-04-17 15:33:51 UTC

I don't want to hijack this bug, but the question is, if it makes sense to use thinkfinger as the default tool for openSUSE any longer? There are quite a few problems with thinkfinger+KDE. I just want to trigger the discussion, if it's better to use fprint instead of thinkfinger on openSUSE 11.0 by default?

See this related links:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116682
http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Pam_fprint

Comment 4 Timo Hoenig 2008-04-17 16:24:11 UTC

Joerg, last time I looked at pam_fprint it did (a) not allow to login without hitting enter after the swipe or (b) concurrent authentication using either a password or pam_thinkfinger.  This is a severe usability issue.  Please correct me if that is wrong.

Thus, fprint is not yet suitable as a drop-in replacement for ThinkFinger.  You may expect a better KDE integration for ThinkFinger as Dirk Mueller fixed the KDE side of things to play nice with pam_thinkfinger.  It's probably not yet checked into FACTORY; dunno.

For anything post 11.0 we'll switch to libfprint.