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No private key for certificate with xcodebuild

Since I changed my certificate,I cant build anymore with xcodebuild.

I can build and export using xcode archive and organizer without issues. My private key is installed correctly.

But, when I use xcodebuild manually from the terminal, it first throw errors I don't fully understand and then says that I dont have a private key for my certificate.

Here is the xcodebuild command I use

terminal% /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -verbose -scheme MyApp -workspace MyApp.xcworkspace -configuration Release clean archive -archivePath _build/MyApp.xcarchive -allowProvisioningUpdates

Here is the error

2020-12-03 07:57:01.238 xcodebuild[4658:241714] DVTAssertions: Warning in /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/IDEFrameworks/IDEFrameworks-17535/IDEFoundation/Provisioning/Logging/IDEProvisioningLedger.m:172 Details: Unable to close provisioning ledger entry because not all of its subentries are closed Object: <IDEProvisioningLedgerEntry: 0x7ff4f0a54e00> Method: -closeWithError: Thread: <NSThread: 0x7ff4ef32abc0>{number = 11, name = (null)} Please file a bug at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com with this warning message and any useful information you can provide.

followed by

error: Revoke certificate: Your account already has an Apple Development signing certificate for this machine, but its private key is not installed in your keychain.

I read a lot of posts from people that have a similar issues

I don't know what to do right now to fix the problem apart from re-installing macos completely :(.

PS:

The build machine originally use jenkins 2.244. The error is the same with jenkins.

The version of xCode is Version 12.2 (12B45b)

The os is Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101)

Thank you

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Answers (1)

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The solution was so simple I'm quite ashamed to have lost this much time on this issue.

The command is building for release so I checked the private key of the distribution certificate and I did not install the developement certificate.

I was so focused on this idea that I did not look back and say "Oh it is talking about developement for a reason (a dumb one) even if I build for distribution"

I just added the Developement certificated and private key to the keychain and it works.

Sow now, I learned that xcodebuild will need the dev certificate and key even when building for distribution.

Upvotes: 1

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