What I ended up doing was figuring out that you need to specify an Ad-Hoc 
provisioning profile.  Sadly, we have too many.

Currently looking at better solutions.  Will advise the list when I find them.

Have a weekend.  

All the best,
Alex Zavatone

On May 22, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Zack Morris wrote:

>> On May 20, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> My god, I figured it out.  No idea how though.
>> 
>> This process is simply hideous.
>> 
>> The error messages in the edge cases point everywhere except the correct 
>> solution.
>> 
>> Basically, I was trying to codesign and distribute an ad-hoc app.
>> 
>> It's amazingly obtuse and even harder than it was 2 years ago due to the 
>> potential paths for failure.  
>> 
>> So nice to see that things are improving for us iOS developers form the 
>> tools side.
>> 
>> 
>> But we have new animations everywhere as compensation, so we have that.
>> 
>> 
>> Ugh.
> 
> I here ya.  One thing that worked for me was trying to use the 
> managed-by-xcode certificates because they seem to update themselves better 
> now, especially for teams.  That way you can just choose “Automatic” for 
> provisioning profile and “iOS Developer” or “iOS Distribution” for code 
> signing identity in the project settings or target settings.
> 
> Also if you go to Xcode->Preferences…->Accounts->View Details and click the 
> reload icon in the lower left, it seems to fix strange problems that the 
> normal fix certificate issue dialog doesn’t.
> 
> I honestly don’t remember whether Ad-Hoc requires development or distribution 
> certificates, or other trivia like that.  I just keep it all in a big notes 
> file and fall back to trying every combination if in doubt.
> 
> It all reminds me of the time back in the 90s when you used to have to type 
> in a bunch of TCP parameters to connect to your ISP, or fill out a bunch of 
> POP/IMAP info to connect to an email account, when username and password 
> should have sufficed.  For provisioning, the only thing that should be needed 
> is a private key (everything else is friction) so I’m hopeful that Apple will 
> come around and axe most of the manual data entry that’s required now.  It’s 
> not just Apple’s problem though, because right now the way that keys are 
> managed for things like SSL and SASS APIs and push notifications, or anything 
> that requires server communication is such a convoluted mess that I simply 
> don’t think it’s the way it will be done in the future.  Probably what’s 
> going to happen is we’ll get something like OpenID for private communication 
> and you’ll just keep all of your keys in a private wallet like Bitcoin and 
> any protocol that requires more than that single key will be considered 
> antiquated and fall out of fashion.
> 
> Zack Morris
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