AW: AW: AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5

Tiemo Hollmann TB toolbook at kestner.de
Sat Oct 11 06:34:11 EDT 2014


Hello Paul,
The thing with signing on 10.8 and downloading again on 10.8. with this
message sounds really weired. Could it be by chance, that your certificate
is expired?
Just a guess
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im
Auftrag
> von Paul Dupuis
> Gesendet: Freitag, 10. Oktober 2014 19:17
> An: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5
> 
> On 10/10/2014 11:33 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> > Hello Paul,
> >
> > I never got any answer, what a manifest file is. Either nobody here
> > knows it, or it is so common knowledge, that it wasn't worth to
> > answer. As far as I know, it is a kind of preference file, but I don't
> > know, for what preferences and I don't know, why a bundle can live
> > without it, if I remove it.
> >
> > You'll find it when you right click your app and let show the package
> > content of your app at:
> > Your.app/Contents/MacOS/Externals/revxxx.bundle/ - again right click
> > and let show the package content of the bundle: /Manifest
> >
> > Remove this Manifest file in all revxxx.bundle in your app.
> >
> > I got the affirmation from Runrev, that I may delete these Manifest
> > files and that they have addressed this issue as a bug, due to Apples
> > changed directory guidelines.
> >
> > Tiemo
> 
> Thank you. I also got back from RunRev their explanation of a manifest
file.
> Unfortunately, that doesn't help in that my Standalone (and installer
built in
> LiveCode) contain no externals and no manifest files.
> We get the "not an identified developer" error under Mavericks 10.9.5 (but
not
> earlier versions) and under 10.8.5 (but not all instances of 10.8.5, so it
may
> be just those with recent software updates) on signed apps that were
signed
> MONTHs ago and had been downloading and running fine until this week.
> 
> Weirder still, we can sign an app using App Wrapper under 10.8.5, make a
DMG
> (using DropDMG), and upload the DMG to our web site and then download the
DMG
> to the same 10.8.5 computer. The app on the downloaded DMG presents the
"not
> an identified developer" warning when you try to launch it, but the same
app,
> on the DMG before it was uploaded run without any warnings.
> 
> If this change by Apple is for "security" only applying it to downloaded
apps
> is not very smart. What if the app came by way of shared file server, etc.
> 
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