marlin

marlin provides an easy way to generate a Packages.gz file for your Cydia/APT repository.

marlin runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

Advantages over dpkg-scanpackages

• No need to install dpkg, perl, or other dependancies you don't want.
• Standalone binary, no dependencies
• Cross platform compatibility
• automatically gzips Packages file
• very fast

##Installing

• grab a copy of marlin for your correct OS and architecture on the releases page
• run marlin from the current directory (./marlin) because it is most likely not in your $PATH

##Compiling Golang must be installed correctly on your computer in order to compile Marlin correctly.

go get github.com/blakesmith/ar
go get github.com/cmelone/marlin
go install github.com/cmelone/marlin

This will create a binary named marlin in the current folder. Add your deb files to a folder named debs (you can configure this in marlin.go). Finally, run marlin and a Packages.gz file will be generated.

##TODO:

• Better error handling
• Ability to create a Release file

Thank you to OpenRepo, making it a lot easier for me to write marlin.