Question

I am into a very strange problem. I have developed an app for myself, which has following three files

• MyApp.app
• MyAppDaemon.app
• LaunchDaemon.plist

When i copy each file into specific folder using ssh , my app works perfect.

• MyApp.app into /Applications
• MyAppDaemon.app into /private/var/mobile/
• LaunchDaemon.plist into /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

App works great if i ssh using cyberduck and puts each file in above specified folders.

Now the problem is when i try to pack the files in .deb file and then transfer to iPhone and then using Terminal i install it [dpkg -i MyApp.deb] the files get copied fine in the folders i specified earlier but my app doesnt work. I have checked all the permissions, still not working.

Its kinda strange, everything is done in the same way as i do using ssh but in case of .deb file its not working, however it works great if i copy the files individually

Any Advice on this??

Answer 1

Thanks for the replies guys, i have found the solution to my problem, although i still dont know why the problem was occurring. Here is what i did

I had packed my AppDaemon in MyApp resources folder in xcode and in DEBIAN’s postinst file i was moving that folder to /private/var/mobile which was causing problem actually. The folder was getting copied to /private/var/mobile but may be not with all the permissions and ownership. So what i did is, before packing it into .deb file, i deleted the AppDaemon from resources folder of MyApp in xcode and made it a standalone app. Then i made this file architecture for packing into .deb

+- MyApp
   +- Applications
      +Myapp.app
   +-DEBIAN
    -control
    -postinst
    -postrm
   +-System
     +-Library
       +-LaunchDaemons
         +- com.myLaunchDaemon.plist
   +-private
     +-var
       +-mobile
         +- AppDaemon.app

Then i packed the folder with .deb commands like this saurik instructed in his site.

All went well, problem solved. However i still dont know why the problem was taking place?