Deb Control File Cydia App
So I've tried many times to create a debian package for the iphone.
- Learn how to install apps and tools on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch using.deb files instead of Cydia.
- +- MyProgram +- Applications +- MyProgram.app +- Info.plist +- MyProgram +- icon.png +- DEBIAN +- control +- System +- Library +- LaunchDaemons +- com.saurik.MyProgram.plist. The contents of the control file is a series of name/value pairs (separated by a colon), one per line. Here is an example.
Contents. Tools To do: add existing tools, on which platforms they are available, how to use them. DEBIAN folder Control file To do: add layout of fields, what do they mean, how they are used.
Control archive - A tar archive named control.tar contains the maintainer scripts and the package meta-information (package name, version, dependencies and maintainer). Compressing the archive with gzip or xz is supported. The file extension changes to indicate the compression method.
Refer to and links at the bottom. If you need to list dependencies or conflicting packages, Debian's packaging manual may be useful (because Cydia packaging is based on Debian packaging):, - or if you're submitting this package to a default repository, you can just ask your repository maintainer for help with this. Other files You can add preinst, postinst, extrainst, prerm, and postrm files to run scripts at various points of the package installation and uninstallation lifecycle. It's important to be conservative with this code - as explains, 'Do not use postinst/preinst/extrainst for file management purposes! Do not store in the package files or directories that your software could create. Do not enforce permissions that your package should contain. Dpkg uses an expressive packaging format that has support for permissions, ownership, and links.
Use that support!' If your package scripts have problems, especially upon uninstallation, this can be very frustrating for your user because that can be very hard to fix for them. You don't want to cause the dreaded error messages. A related unfortunate reality is that if your package has complex scripts, that can increase the chances that if a pirate repository poorly repackages your tweak, somebody doing 'try before they buy' can run into those error messages and get frustrated. Documentation about these scripts in the Debian packaging manual: and.
Cydia App Installer
Extrainst I get a lot of requests for things like 'I want to run stuff after the install, but only on install, not on upgrade'. APT/dpkg is miserable at this. Its sad, but true.
Deb Control File Cydia App For Android
It has a file called postinst, but postinst is really designed for reconfiguring a package, not for installing it: its called /long after/ the package is installed (like, APT will go on and install more things and then queue up the postinst files to the very end) and it doesn't /really/ know anything about the package. Example: in a postinst you know that the previous configuration on disk was from version 1.0, but not that 1.0 itself was actually on disk. And if you are a new install it still tells you that /you're/ already the configuration there (which is really just a stupid semantic).
Merging
/So/, after dealing with an issue in a package with BigBoss, I have decided to do something about this: I have added to dpkg a new script called extrainst. This script takes one of two arguments: install or upgrade (in which case you also get the version you are upgrading from), and is designed to completely ignore configuration files (so if you were previously in a configuration file only state that isn't considered 'installed'). I believe that this new script now provides a very simple conceptualization for how you do 'extra stuff' during an install. In fact, if you are previously coming from Installer, this script will likely feel like 'ahhhh'. To use this new script (which yes, really ends in an underscore) your package should Pre-Depends: dpkg (= 1.13.25-5). This will make it so that that version of dpkg is actually available during the install and is used to run the scripts. (Yes, this will work even during the install using the old version of dpkg to upgrade dpkg and then switching to the new version of dpkg to install your script;P).
If this script fails then the install is considered to not have worked and the installation procedure will get rolled back (files will get removed, replaced back to the backup copies if it was an upgrade, and a million random scripts will get called with irritatingly complicated to remember arguments). (Note that this version of dpkg isn't up right now, but will be up within an hour or two: i.e., long before any of you is likely to bother to try to use it;P). An example extrainst: #!/bin/bash if $1 install $1 upgrade ; then dosomething awesome fi if $1 upgrade && $2 1.0-4 ; then fixbugin old version fi -J To see the whole discussion about this, see. Telling Cydia to respring/reboot etc. After install From.