Question

I have been developing an app for an iDevice, and I wanted to create a .deb file of my app, so I created a simple app in Xcode to test things out, but I am having difficulty creating the .deb file.

I did the following steps:

1) deleted the .DS_Store files, *$ rm -rf .DS_Store*
2) $ dpkg-deb -b ~/repo/debs

When it creates the .deb file it is only 16KB which I know the test app should be a little bigger.

The directory structure for the app is as follows:

+- MyProgram
 +- Applications
 | +- MyProgram.app 
 | +- Info.plist 
   | +- MyProgram 
   | +- icon.png 
+- DEBIAN 
| +- control 
+- System 
 +- Library 
  +- LaunchDaemons 
   +- com.saurik.MyProgram.plist

I didn’t include a com.saurik.MyProgram.plist file because I didn’t see a file resembling one in the build directory, when I built the app in Xcode.

Basically the app is a simple viewcontroller with a label. The app does contain a .storyboard file if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

I got this working, and created a shell script in the process. The shell script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Update Repo Script Started"

cd ~/Projects/<ProjectName>

ldid -S app/<Project.app>/<Project>

cp -R app/<Project.app> ~/packages/<Project>/Applications/

cd ~/packages

echo $PWD

dpkg-deb -b <Project> ~/repo/debs/

cd ~/repo

dpkg-scanpackages debs / > Packages

bzip2 -fks Packages

cd ..

ssh -n <host> 'rm -rf /path/to/your/repo'

scp -r repo <host>:/home/<user>/www/

echo "Repo Updated"