Productsign behaviour change in 10.8.3

Hi,
I used to sign installer packages on 10.7 with a self signed certificate and it used to get signed. My selfsigned certificate was basically a "codesign" type of certificate and I have the Private Key for it also on the machine on which I am signing.
In 10.8 onwards the same productsign command is not working.
So the product sign command is:
productsign --sign <My Cert Identity> <input file> <outputfile>
This used to work on 10.7 but on 10.8 it gives error:
productsign error: Could not find appropriate signing identy for "<My Cert identity>"
I think the problem is because My Selfsigned certificate is a "codesign" certificate and not an installer signing certificate.
But since this same command was working on 10.7 it seems the behaviour of productsign has changed and now it has become more strict.
I want to ask if my understanding correct.
Secondly how can I create a self signed installer signing identity on mac so that I can sign my installer on 10.8 (I do not have Apple Developer Installer ID)
Thanks a lot in advance,
Amit

Try posting here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/developer_forums

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( Please excuse the general fuzzyness of this question/topic... I'm in the middle of one of those weird fits of "I should have made a backup before I started that backup now I need to check EVERYTHING and the server too and omg when was the last time I even ssh'd into the router and looked at the cronjobs!?" )
Last edited by whoops (2015-01-31 09:55:19)

\hbar wrote:I don't get it: I see a hyphen before the options. Was it edited?
yes, sorry, it probably wasn't clear...:
whoops wrote:Oh, thanks, that was a hasty copy paste error (was scared of the --delete ), fixed it now.
... what exactly I "fixed" there. Should have re-posted the line instead of editing the old post .
\hbar wrote:Anyways, it seems to me that */BACKUP/* would not exclude /BACKUP : the /* files you are sync-ing get expanded into their names, one of which would be 'BACKUP' which does not (and should not) match '*/BACKUP/*'
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*sigh* Maybe it's time to retire that thing... even though it had a pretty good run (several years on several mostly unsupervised machines including a webserver and a router - and no problems)...
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The only reason why I even need backups seems to be that I keep deleting files while trying to make backups (even if for a change I don't use any messy self-written scripts) and then I end up doing "good old messy file recovery" instead anyways -.-
Last edited by whoops (2015-01-31 08:32:59)

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Message was edited by: David Greenhalgh

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Flex 3/4 Initialization Timing Changes?

Hi there. This isn't end-of-the-world critical, but I'm trying to better understand what's going on here.
We have a relatively large and complex business app (several hundred classes split into a core application framework plus multiple dynamically-loaded product modules), originally written in Flex 3.2. As part of our new release, we are taking the chance to port it over to Flex 4.5; I've spent the past week doing so. We're continuing to use the Halo theme for the time being, to minimize the initial disruption.
I've pretty much gotten it working, but I'm still trying to understand the key behaviour change that I've observed. A lot of our code is failing at initialization time. I'm still nailing down exactly what's different, but the most obvious bit is that it seems like, in commitProperties(), properties that refer to other objects in the same parent don't exist yet, where they previously did. So I'm getting null pointer exceptions where I wasn't previously.
Similarly, I have a few objects where the property refers to the object itself. They're graphing objects, which have a property that describes how to set up the dataFunction. This property is typically set to one of several functions available on the object. So graph "foo" would set this function to "foo.useDateForY" or some such, using one of these utility functions on the class that says how to set up the graph. This previously worked, but now the property is failing because "foo" is null when it is trying to resolve the property value. This seems likely to be related to the above.
Finally, I've also observed what appear to be differences in the resolution of the lifecycle for non-visible objects. Again, I haven't had time to nail this down precisely, but it feels like I used to get CREATION_COMPLETE in a bunch of cases that aren't getting it any more -- specifically, this seems to be happening for objects that I'm building up before adding them to the visible graph. I build lots of screens upfront when a product is loaded, but don't actually add them into the tab structure until they are invoked. Similarly, we have popups that we want to be populating as we go, long before they are displayed, but I don't seem to be getting CREATION_COMPLETE for them when I used to.
So it seems like something has changed subtly in the UIComponent lifecycle, having to do with the timing of resolving IDs, setting properties to them, and calling commitProperties(); maybe also something having to do with how parenting relates to finishing the lifecycle. Does anybody have a clue what I'm talking about here? And is there a document somewhere that describes the timing changes more clearly? I've seen several documents talking about 3 -> 4 changes, but haven't noticed anything on this particular topic...

Yes, the timing of when child objects are created has changed relative to
when the constructor runs, but the lifecycle methods and events have not
changed. If you rely on commitProperties to resolve things, it should be
ok.
The only cases I've seen where creationComplete doesn't fire is if there is
an invalidation loop going on which is slightly more possible if using
multiline text controls whose height depends on width or vice-versa.

Is there a flowchart describing gc behaviour of the Sun hotspot jvm?

Given that garbage collector tuning is such an important part of application deployment it is surprising that the behaviour of the garbage collector implemented in the Sun JVM is so poorly documented.
Our system is displaying behaviour changes that we don't expect and do not want and it we can't find enough information to predict how the garbage collector will behave under expected and changing conditions. This makes it impossible to select sensible parameters for our system.
For example, we have included the -Xincgc option when running a weblogic6.0 server to reduce the size of the gc pauses. Monitoring the memory (both on the weblogic console and via -verbose:gc) we have small gcs happening quite frequently but after a couple of hours it switches over to full gcs and stays that way for ever after. The full gcs bring on the longer delays for garbage collection (typically around 5 seconds) every 5 minutes or so.
Incidentally, we assume the small gcs are the incremental gcs performed on the old area but there is no way to distinguish those from the little scavenging gcs that are performed even without -Xincgc.
The total memory used is quite modest (1/4 to 1/2 the size generally) compared to the max heap size and the old area and comparable to the new area.
If there is a flowchart or uml activity diagram that describes the hotspot gc behaviour so that we could be a little more deterministic in our approach to gc tuning I would be most grateful to get access to it. This trial and error approach is very frustrating.
There's some very useful information out there about the structure of the java heap and the meaning of the various options and even the garbage collection algorithms themselves but it is not sufficient to specify the behaviour of the specific hotspot jvm from Sun Microsystems.
I liken it to having a class diagram describing a highly dynamic system but no interaction diagrams.

I would also love to have a comprehensive explanation of garbage collection in Java. I'm still mystified by it in some respects.
The author of this thread has obviously researched Java GC... don't know if this helps, but someone in another thread posted this link to a JDC Tech Tips issue concerning memory allocation and GC:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/TechTips/2000/tt1222.html
Also the links near the bottom may be worth checking out...
There's something in that web page that I still don't understand and I think I will post a message about it soon.

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