How To Make A Cydia Repository

[DSMKilla]

whn i run the dpkg-scanpackages , i get a blank file only...

i made md5sums for the deb file from the Hash'em all! Free online text and file hashing

still i get the same error md5sums mismatch....

Hmmm are you getting any errors related to all this? Try using this dpkg-scanpackages file and see if it works.

dpkg-scanpackages

I never knew how. ask saurik [email protected]


dpkg-scanpackages stopped working so i copied the first one each time.

DSMKilla even though I posted the instructions, my dpkg-scanpackages doesnt work now. Any ideas?

Hmmm same to you, try mine and see if it works.
dpkg-scanpackages

thank u man, but then i run into another problem, when i did that to the packages file cause theres so many packages, i got 1 available update, of each package on my repo, and after i update i still keep seein that update on cydia =(

Nevermind i made it, i had to put it on the COntrol file anyways. otherwise it will show a new update even tho u already update it

Hmmmm so wait your saying that if you DIDN'T add the DEPENDS line to the control file and if you only added it to the Package file that your packages were showing up under the CHANGES section?

[kanaya]

Hmmmm so wait your saying that if you DIDN'T add the DEPENDS line to the control file and if you only added it to the Package file that your packages were showing up under the CHANGES section?

no what im saying is that if i only add the depend line to the packages on the package file it will show that there is an update of all the packages from the repo u got installed, so to fix that u gotta add the depend line to the control file too

[DSMKilla]

no what im saying is that if i only add the depend line to the packages on the package file it will show that there is an update of all the packages from the repo u got installed, so to fix that u gotta add the depend line to the control file too

Hmmm are you sure because I just went into my Packages list and removed all the depends from all my apps just to test it out and nothing showed up in the changes. Maybe since you ADDED a depends is why it did it.

Did you try adding the depends to only ONE of your apps and then going back into Cydia and seeing if only the ONE app shows up under CHANGES?

[itouchr]

Hmmm are you getting any errors related to all this? Try using this dpkg-scanpackages file and see if it works.

dpkg-scanpackages



Hmmm same to you, try mine and see if it works.
dpkg-scanpackages



Hmmmm so wait your saying that if you DIDN'T add the DEPENDS line to the control file and if you only added it to the Package file that your packages were showing up under the CHANGES section?

Where should I put them? in the repo folder or /binn/sw something?

[DSMKilla]

Where should I put them? in the repo folder or /binn/sw something?

Well what OS are you using? Debian Linux or OSX?? You need to have them on your DESKTOP of wherever your working at. They don't need to go in the repo.

[itouchr]

Well what OS are you using? Debian Linux or OSX?? You need to have them on your DESKTOP of wherever your working at. They don't need to go in the repo.

Mac.

Well what OS are you using? Debian Linux or OSX?? You need to have them on your DESKTOP of wherever your working at. They don't need to go in the repo.

Mac. I think I know.

[juanpablo30]

I see that in your repo (Index of /apt) that the Package is in .bz2 and in the tutorial it shows that it should be .gzip, and my ipod ask for a bzip2, i have to rename it?

[DSMKilla]

Mac.
Mac. I think I know.

Hmmm yeah I'm not sure man, I am running Debian Linux via VMware Workstation to create my repo stuff so I'm not sure about the MAC stuff. I do recall seeing somewhere that you have to use something called "Fink" if your going to be using a MAC based computer. You might want to look into that. I also saw it mentioned on Saurik's website

Unfortunately, the stock copy of dpkg-scanpackages that comes with Debian is not designed to take into account used-defined fields, so the Cydia-specific fields will need to be manually added to the script. This is rather easy: simply add "Name", "Author", "Homepage", and "Icon" to the end of the array "fieldpri". If you'd prefer, you may download a pre-made version of this file from my website.

Unfortunately again, this copy I provide will not work with Fink, so you will have to do the rather simple modification yourself. If I get my hands on the stock Fink copy soon I may provide that modified on this website, but currently I don't have it on me .

Currently, this program may not be run on the iPhone itself as Perl is not yet ported into Telesphoreo. Hopefully the author will have this fixed in the near future, at which point a few of the more advanced features of dpkg will finally be unlocked (such as dpkg-divert, which allows for safe replacements of files from other packages or the system).

I see that in your repo (Index of /apt) that the Package is in .bz2 and in the tutorial it shows that it should be .gzip, and my ipod ask for a bzip2, i have to rename it?

Nah it doesn't matter, bzip2 or gzip will both work.

[juanpablo30]

But i want to try to do it in bz2 how do i do?

Sorry for my English

[kanaya]

Hmmm are you sure because I just went into my Packages list and removed all the depends from all my apps just to test it out and nothing showed up in the changes. Maybe since you ADDED a depends is why it did it.

Did you try adding the depends to only ONE of your apps and then going back into Cydia and seeing if only the ONE app shows up under CHANGES?

yes i did, what happens is if i add the depend to the package file the package i add the depend to it will show an update, but even after i update it it still shows there is a new update, until i put the depend on the control file too

[itouchr]

I see that in your repo (Index of /apt) that the Package is in .bz2 and in the tutorial it shows that it should be .gzip, and my ipod ask for a bzip2, i have to rename it?

Actually, I went to bzip2 : Home and downloaded bzip2 and in terminal instead of gzip, i type bzip and it makes a .bz2 instead of .gz

[jhgi]

Okay, so I started all over again, from scratch, and did everything the guide said to. Now when I try to install my theme, I get a pop-up that says Undetermined Error. What can I do about this or where did I go wrong?

[DSMKilla]

But i want to try to do it in bz2 how do i do?

Sorry for my English

Depends on what OS your using, bz2 is nothing more than a zip file or a rar file etc, they all do the same thing. So just need to find a program that will create bz2 files. If your using a windows based OS I have found a program called "7-Zip" that compresses to all kinds of file formats. If your using something like Debian Linux you just simply go to a terminal window and type bzip2 filename.ext

yes i did, what happens is if i add the depend to the package file the package i add the depend to it will show an update, but even after i update it it still shows there is a new update, until i put the depend on the control file too

OK what I was saying to do is to only add the depends to the "Packages" file NOT the control file that is located in the deb package. It should work.

[jhgi]

Does anybody have an answer? All I can get is "Undetermined Error". Should I try to do it all again and see what happens?

[kanaya]

Does anybody have an answer? All I can get is "Undetermined Error". Should I try to do it all again and see what happens?

that happens when u dont have the deb file in the correct path, it happened to me cause in the packages i said the ded file is in /debs/debfile.deb and i had the deb file in the root /debfile.deb

[VonHelp]

Hi everyone, great tutorial, but i have a problem.

Once i made all this process, after adding the source i tryied to install one of my apps, and for some reason, sometimes my downloads doesn't finish or there is a messeage "SIZE MISMATCH" That happens with all my apps.

I don't think is the "size" at my package file because i do it like you said.

Any help would be appreciated!

[itouchr]

My repo is now moved.

New repo link coming soon!

[exNavy]

Ok I muddled through this and it wound up working! You posted a really nice guide here! It just needs some slight procedural changes. I was initially very confused about steps 21-24 as we were uploading files to the server, then editing them there, then reediting the files on the desktop. We were also compressing files on the computer, uploading them to the server and then decompressing them on the server and then deleting some extra files if they appeared.

This is what I did to make it work:

I skipped step 21, step 22 (you'll do this later), and step 23.

step 24 edit the packages file on your computer, use this link
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...ssoftware.html

This program will generate the md5 hash on your .deb files.

Now save your packages file, then gzip -f Packages

Double click the Packages.gz file to extract the Packages file.

Then upload the debs folder, Packages, Packages.gz, and Release files to your server. You should only upload these files once they have been fully edited on the computer first.

I posted a tutorial for Mac users at my site. I'll look at incorporating the icons information as well.

[exNavy]

Can someone explain the process of adding icons more thoroughly? We don't want the icons to show up as a line item in your folder as we want it to be a behind the scenes process so to speak. So exactly how do we do this?

[Kyle Matthews]

If you mean adding an icon for a package (like an app), its as easy as:

Icon: file:///Applications/SwapCameraRoll.app/icon.png

in your control file.