Submit an OSX App with helper App in its bundle

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11230168

Question

I'm really going mad with this problem! I have an app that contains a simple Helper app which manages the login item for the Main app.

When I try to submit the app I get errors related to the provisioning profile and the entitlements. I'm sure that the problem is related with the Helper app because before than I added it the submission worked with no problem.

At the moment the helper app is code signed and is sandboxed as the main app.

The errors are :

  • Invalid provisioning profile. The provisioning profile included in the bundle is invalid

  • Invalid Code Signing Entitlements. The entitlements in your app bundle signature do not match the one that are contained in the provisioning profile. The bundle contains a key that is not included in the provisioning profile 'com.apple.application-identifier' in 'myapp.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/helper.app'

  • Invalid Code Signing Entitlements. The entitlements in your app bundle signature do not match the one that are contained in the provisioning profile. The bundle contains a key that is not included in the provisioning profile 'com.apple.application-identifier' in 'myapp.app/Contents/MacOS/myapp'

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Solution

For anyone else coming across this problem, you don't have to codesign the helper app a second time, just remove the "embedded.provisionprofile" from the helper app in the xarchive and you can submit no problem.

OTHER TIPS

The only solution that seems to solve this problem was codesign and sandboxing the helper app from Xcode and then:


Re-Codesign the Helper app from terminal

codesign -f -s "3rd Party mac Developer Application:" -i "com.bundle.YOUR.HELPER" --entitlements path/to/helper/entitlements YEOR-HELPER.app



Remove provisioning profile from Helper app, adding a "Run script" into the "Build Phases"

rm"${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/YOUR-HELPER.app/Contents/embedded.provisionprofile"

With this solution we've correctly submitted our App.

I had the 3rd error when I accidentally included some 3rd-party .a files in my target. (They're needed for non-App Store distribution but I'd forgotten to exclude them for the App Store build). The error wasn't too helpful in tracking this down!

I was finally able to resolve this problem by deleting the embedded.provisionprofile file from the helper app by adding the following run script:

if [ -f "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app/Contents/embedded.provisionprofile" ];
then
    rm "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app/Contents/embedded.provisionprofile"
    echo "Removed embedded provisioning profile."
else
    echo "No profile found"
fi
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