IPhone Make Cydia Package

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Cydia packages are simple .deb-files, also known from Debian Linux distribution.

Contents [hide] 1 Package files 2 Make package 3 Create repository 4 References

Package files

When the program is ready and testing is done, create the following directory structure:

- ProgramName

- Applications

|  - ProgramName.app

|    | - Info.plist

|    | - ProgramName

|    | - icon.png

|    | - Default.png

|    | - ... and all other files

- DEBIAN

|  - control

- System

|  ... and other files

The control-file should contain the following information:

Package: com.saurik.programname

Name: ProgramName

Version: 1.0

Priority: optional

Size: 128222

Installed-Size: 125

Architecture: iphoneos-arm

Description: An example of using APT, short desc.

Every day people use Cydia, but with the

instructions embodied in this package,

people can publish for it as well.

Homepage: http://www.saurik.com/id/7

Depiction: http://www.saurik.com/id/7

Maintainer: Your Name 

Author: Jay Freeman 

Sponsor: Microsoft <http://www.microsoft.com/>

Section: Utilities

Icon: file:///Applications/ProgramName/icon.png

Omit the Depiction field if you want to show the Description field instead of the URL provided.

Make package

On Linux or Mac OS X, get the suitable dpkg-deb binary:

• dpkg-deb Linux
• dpkg-deb Mac OS X

And run the following command to build the package, not that there's no ending slash.

dpkg-deb -b ProgramName

Ignore any user-defined field errors.

contains user-defined field

The final package is created in the working directory, view the directory with ls -lha.

Create repository

A repository is necessary to make the package show up in Cydia.

Download the modified dpkg-scanpackages where the user-defined fields Name, Author, Homepage, and Icon is added to the filedpri-array (perl script). Create the Packages-file using the following command:

dpkg-scanpackages -m . /dev/null >Packages

Look at the file content to verify that the package and field information is correct:

cat Packages

Compress it using bzip:

bzip2 Packages

Optionally create a metadata file in the same directory as Packages called Release describing the repository:

Origin: Saurik's Example for Cydia

Label: Cydia Example Short

Suite: stable

Version: 0.9

Codename: tangelo

Architectures: iphoneos-arm

Components: main

Description: An Example Repository from HowTo Instructions

Icon: http://www.saurik.com/repo.png

This information will be shown in the Sources-section in Cydia.

References

• How to host a Cydia repository