Installation Guide

[tciuro]

Hello,

Noob here. So I have the base64 file created from a password-protected p12 file. I see that I'm supposed to enter the following in the yaml file:

uses: apple-actions/import-codesign-certs@v1
with: 
  p12-file-base64: ${{ secrets.CERTIFICATES_P12 }}
  p12-password: ${{ secrets.CERTIFICATES_P12_PASSWORD }}

Questions:

• Where in the YAML file should the above snippet go?
• Are these two attributes referring to a specific file? Or should I paste the contents of the file?
• If it's a file reference, where in the project should I place the two files?

Thanks!

[orj]

@tciuro Apologies for not providing more documentation. Note that this project is for a GitHub Action. You should be familiar with GitHub Actions in order to use it.

The YAML is your GitHub Actions workflow. The attributes are making reference to GitHub Action secrets.

[DimitarNestorov]

The P12 file is a result of exporting your certificate from Keychain Access. This certificate requires you to set up a password hence the p12-password. This export is also a binary file and the GitHub Action secrets are strings so you will have to convert that binary in base64, and even though it is password protected I would still advise not to use online tools for the conversion.

[orj]

There is a command line too in macOS Catalina called base64. You can do the conversion in terminal. So once you've exported your Code Signing Certificate and Private Key from Keychain Access to a file named Certificate.p12 you can run this command.

Eg:

cat Certificate.p12 | base64 | pbcopy

The above command line will put the base64 encoded .p12 file into your Mac's Copy/Paste buffer so you can paste it into a GitHub Actions Secret which you can later feed into your workflow.

[tciuro]

Yup. I got it working! Thanks a lot for the help! 🤙🏻