On 2016-08-23 at 11:37:40 Rick Stevens wrote:

> On 08/23/2016 11:10 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > Rick Stevens wrote:  
> >> You could download and "dnf install alien", download the unifi
> >> code and
> >>
> >>     alien -r unifi_sysvinit_all.deb
> >>
> >> to convert the downloaded DEB to an RPM. Then install the RPM. I
> >> can't absolutely guarantee it'll work, but since all the software
> >> is free, why not give it a whirl!  
> > 
> > Converting a .deb with alien almost never produces a reasonable
> > rpm, in my experience.  It does the job it's supposed to do; but
> > the results are just not usually sufficient, particularly when it
> > comes to system daemons.
> > 
> > In this case, the unifi init script is fairly debian-specific.  
> 
> I figured something along those lines. My hope was that he could
> extract the bits and futz with it to get it to go (I think it's a Java
> app).
> 
> It was just an idea.

I already tried using alien but to no avail because it produced this
rpm build error: Arch dependent binaries in noarch package

So alien is a bad idea.

-- 
Erik
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