Creating a Cydia Repository [Windows]

All credits to maXimus for this amazing guide
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What you NEED
A computer with Linux/Ubuntu 8.10 installed
A website - where you have FTP access for hosting the repository.
THIS package - it contains files that you will copy to two directories on your Linux machine.
An App or Theme - We don't need an empty Repo

STEP I
Example.
In this example there is a them "MyProgram". There is a folder "MyProgram" with all the files. In that there is a subfolder "DEBIAN"(Case-Sensetive -- all caps) Which is required. This has a control file in it. The next subfoler is Library and inside that there is Themes (Because this is a theme and theme go to /library/themes). This has to be exactly like how its supposed to go on the iPhone .
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STEP II
control File
This is in the DEBIAN foler
It has The Following Fields

Package: this is the identifier of the package and should be all lower case. It is similar to the bundleIdentifier in Apple's Info.plist file.
Name: the name of your program as seen in Cydia.
Version: program version number.
Architecture: this will probably always be "iphoneos-arm" if you are writing for firmware 1.2/2.x.
Depends: program(s) that need to be installed for your program to work such as "winterboard" if it is a theme.
Description: a description of your program (ignored if you use Depiction).
Homepage: sends the user to the page of the packager's choice (ignored if you use Depiction).
Depiction: this loads a URL into an iframe in place Description and Homepage. You should use this to display custom links and/or screenshots.
Maintainer: package builder, person to contact for problems, format "Name ".
Author: wrote the software, same format as Maintainer.
Sponsor: financial provider for package, format "Name .
Section: location in Cydia.

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Now Switch over to linux

Download THIS

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Extract the files from the archive and u should have dpkg-scanpackagesand dpkg-gettext.pl

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Open Terminal And run the following commands to copy the dpkg-scanpackages
file to the /usr/bin folder and make it executable by changing permissions

sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/cydia-repo/dpkg-scanpackages /usr/bin
sudo chmod 0777 /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages

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Then type

sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/cydia-repo/dpkg-gettext.pl /etc/perl
sudo chmod 0777 /etc/perl/dpkg-gettext.pl

to copy the dpkg-gettext.pl file to the /etc/perl folder and make it executable
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And your /usr/bin folder should look like
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And your /etc/perl folder should look like
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create a folder in your home folder (lets call it cydia), create a sub-folder called apps for your apps and themes and another called upload for files going to your repository.
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In upload create a folder deb
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Place your app or theme in the apps folder.
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Then open Terminal again and type

cd /home/username/cydia/apps
dpkg -b MyProgam

to change to the apps directory and build the .deb file
(case sensetive)
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In your apps folder u should see the new deb
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Move the .deb file to the /home/username/cydia/upload/deb
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In terminal type

cd /home/username/cydia/upload
dpkg-scanpackages -m . /dev/null >Packages

to build the Packages file
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Browse to the upload folder and you should find your Packages file.
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Then open Packages with "Text Editor" (right-click open with)
Check that Filename: says ./deb/MyProgram.deb.
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Right-click the Packages file and choose "Create archive...".
Change the file extension to .gz and click Create.
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Now u have 3 packages in /home/username/cydia/upload/
deb, Packages, Packages.gz
Upload them to your website repo
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Now Return To Windows
Create a text file called Release with your repository information.
When you save the text file, you must remove the ".txt" a the end of the file name if your editor automatically adds it to the file.
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Here are brief descriptions of each field:

Origin: slightly longer version of your repo name.
Label: shorter version of repo name.
Suite: should always be "stable".
Version: arbitrary version number.
Codename: put whatever you want here.
Architectures: should always be "iphoneos-arm".
Components: should always be "main".
Description: a short description of the repo.

Upload the Release file to your repository to the same location as the deb folder, Package file and Package.gz archive.
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Now go and test it in cydia:hooray:

via MaXimus

ALSO
Here is another way to create your .deb files using your iPhone
U need Winscp

Browse to root directory
(/)
create a folder called Cydia
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Copy your app or theme to the /Cydia directory on your iPhone.
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Open a terminal in WinSCP and run this command from /Cydia

dpkg -b MyProgram

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Now you have your .deb file in the Cydia directory
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copy your .deb file to your computer Thats it!

This post has been edited by Ls600h: 14 March 2009 - 02:22 PM

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