Quickies for Provisioning Hell

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Hacks

• Seeing entitlement and certification information [permalink]
  Sometimes it's useful to see what certificate was used for signing, and what entitlements are in your app. The codesign tool does that. How to use:

  % cd ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/$DATE/Campwhere.xcarchive/Products/Applications
  % codesign -dvvv ./Campwhere.app
  % codesign -d --entitlements - ./Campwhere.app
  

• Seeing the signing jazz inside of an IPA [permalink]
  An IPA is actually a zip file. You can extract the contents by unzipping it:

  % unzip Catalog.ipa
  

  Stuff will appear in a directory called "Payload"

  Then you can look at signing:

  % codesign -dvvv Payload/Catalog.app/
  Executable=/Users/markd/junk/Payload/Catalog.app/Catalog
  Identifier=com.bignerdranch.Catalog
  Format=bundle with Mach-O thin (armv7)
  CodeDirectory v=20100 size=2513 flags=0x0(none) hashes=117+5 location=embedded
  ...
  Authority=Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority
  Authority=Apple Root CA
  Signed Time=Aug 30, 2012 5:21:26 PM
  Info.plist entries=28
  Sealed Resources rules=3 files=31
  Internal requirements count=1 size=296
  

  as well as entitlements:

  % codesign -d --entitlements - ./Payload/Catalog.app
  Executable=/Users/markd/junk/Payload/Catalog.app/Catalog
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
          <key>application-identifier</key>
  ...
  
  

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