Thanks, I figured out the correct switch for the description. We use the /f /p option in our current build for cert selection. Regarding the retry issue, I recall one of my former build systems doing something similar. I don't think we have run into that here (knock on wood). Maybe IS magic process does the retry for us.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Bruce Cran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/22/2013 6:47 PM, Tony wrote: > > Answering my own question... > > > > ".(though now I see it needs to be "property", so I'll give that a try)" > > <-- that was it. I don't know why I was thinking it need to be a WiX > > property and/or preprocessor variable. **OBVIOUSLY** it needs to be a > > "property" within the project file. Duh! > > > > Now the signing attempt fails as expected. I'll go grab our signing cert > > and give it try. > > When you install the cert you might want to change the signtool commands > to specify its thumbprint instead of relying on signtool's auto-selection: > > signtool sign /sha1 cert-thumbprint > or, specify the cert's Subject Name with /n. I realised my previous > email used the wrong parameter for the description: I think it's > actually /d. > > Another thing: MSBuild has a built-in task for running signtool, > SignFile - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164304.aspx. But I > ended up writing my own implementation which retries 10 times with > pauses in-between to try and handle network problems which prevent the > timestamp server being reached. > > -- > Bruce Cran > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
