{"id":11817,"date":"2015-07-24T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2023-05-19T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:55:19","slug":"code-signing-in-el-capitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/code-signing-in-el-capitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Signing in El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2015\/07\/23\/code-signing-in-el-capitan\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2015\/07\/23\/code-signing-in-el-capitan\/\"><p>Gatekeeper rejected the app because I&rsquo;m using Sparkle 1.5b6. The framework has symlinks to paths on a Mac that I doubt <a href=\"http:\/\/andymatuschak.org\">Andy Matuschak<\/a> uses anymore. That&rsquo;s completely reasonable: those symlinks could just as easily point to something a lot more damaging that a non-existent directory.<\/p><p>The <code>--strict<\/code> option currently checks the validity of symlinks. You can point a symlink at a path in your own application package, <code>\/System<\/code> or <code>\/Library<\/code>, but nowhere else. The code signing rules also allow language translations to be removed, but if they are present they must be unmodified.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Many of your customers will be downloading and running your app on the El Capitan public beta: you should do the <code>codesign --deep --strict<\/code> check on any new releases to avoid customer support issues. It&rsquo;s also likely that a similar check will be performed for you when the Mac App Store eventually allows submissions for 10.11.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: Gatekeeper rejected the app because I&rsquo;m using Sparkle 1.5b6. The framework has symlinks to paths on a Mac that I doubt Andy Matuschak uses anymore. That&rsquo;s completely reasonable: those symlinks could just as easily point to something a lot more damaging that a non-existent directory.The --strict option currently checks the validity of symlinks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-19T12:55:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"73a0dc71-dcbb-4328-8874-324191fdb895","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-19T12:55:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ac6Dccdy7QyiIdDJBkf24lQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[466,465,30,1199,2387],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-codesigning","tag-gatekeeper","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-sparkle"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11818,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}