feat(tools): add TrollStore deploy script - #18
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Shipping a patched IPA to a device was a manual scp + ssh dance, and two device-specific gotchas kept biting: trollstorehelper cannot read /tmp (error 166), and its location differs between TrollStore and TrollStore Lite installs. deploy.sh stages into /var/mobile/Documents with a chown to mobile, auto-discovers the helper while filtering out stale PersistenceHelper leftovers, kills the running process so the new binary actually dyld_loads, and tolerates the ssh exit 255 that a mid-install SpringBoard restart produces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
tools/deploy.sh— ships a patched IPA to an iOS device and installs it through TrollStore over SSH.Why
Deploying was a manual
scp+sshdance, and two device-specific gotchas kept biting:trollstorehelperruns sandboxed and cannot read/tmp/— an IPA staged there is rejected with return code 166 even though the file is physically present. The script stages into/var/mobile/Documents/andchowns tomobile.TrollStoreLite.app, and filters out staleTrollStorePersistenceHelper.appleftovers whose entitlements have been invalidated (they SIGKILL with exit 137 / ssh 255).It also
killalls the running process before install — otherwiseopen <bundle-id>front-restores the old in-memory instance and the new binary neverdyld_loads, which reads as "the tweak didn't take effect".trollstorehelpercommonly restarts SpringBoard mid-install, yanking the SSH session and returning exit 255 despite a successful install; that specific exit is tolerated, any other non-zero exit propagates.Test plan
deploy.sh --ipa <patched.ipa> --host host.docker.internal --port 2222 --bundle-id com.neconome.shogiinstalls and relaunches on a TrollStore Lite deviceTrollStoreLite.appwhen both flavours are present🤖 Generated with Claude Code