[OT] Renewing Apple Developer ID Installer Certificate

[Marty Knapp]

Thanks Colin. It is a bit different than iOS (and I'm not selling in the 
Mac App Store either). What I've done at this point is to generate new 
certificates for both the Developer ID Application and Developer ID 
Installer. There appears to be no renewal capability. I use AppWrapper 
to codesign my apps and in looking at the setup, I'm guessing that 
Developer ID Installer certificate, while required in AppWrapper, is 
only for when you build an installer package (I use a DMG).

I'll have to wait till Wednesday when my old certificates expire to see 
if I have trouble with the previously signed apps. If someone knows 
anything more, I'm all ears. Hopefully I'm good for another 5 years, 
when I'll forget how to do this all over again - I love getting old!

Marty
> I would think that it’s the same as with iOS. When you go back to https://developer.apple.com/account/mac/certificate/ <https://developer.apple.com/account/mac/certificate/> after renewing your subscription it will most likely have an expired certificate. You make a new one, then go to the provisioning profile for your app, it should show as expired. Edit it and re-select the certificate, picking the new one.
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> If the current certificate is still valid for a while you can still edit the provisioning profile to give it a fresh start.
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> If you edit a provisioning profile file you should find an ExpirationDate entry that gives the date it will expire.
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>> On Jul 3, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> I sell and distribute Mac apps from my own website and have the Apple Developer ID Application Certificate and the Developer ID Installer Certificate. I've been notified that they will both expire in a couple of days.
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>> According to the Apple web site, if the Developer ID Installer Certificate expires, users will *not* be able to install any applications signed with the certificate. (an expired Developer ID Application Certificate is not a problem for existing installers).
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>> What I can't seem to find are instructions on *renewing* the certificate. I found one article that said I needed to revoke the old one and then create a new one. That makes me a little nervous. Obviously I don't want to screw this up and have customers going crazy, while I'm frantically trying to figure out what to do.
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>> You would think that Apple would have an easy Steps 1-2-3 to renew, but I sure can't find them. Anyone done this recently? Should I revoke the old one or wait till it expires?
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>> Thanks for any help,
>> Marty
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