Allow passing provisioning profile from command line

[louwers]

We don't want to hardcode a team ID or other provisioning profile details in our build files. We use rules_apple for an open source project (MapLibre Native) and we want everyone to be able to build the project without having to edit the build files first.

It would be helpful if a provisioning profile could be supplied from the command line for this.

[keith]

related convo for others: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_apple/discussions/1957

[ali-fareed]

As a workaround, it's possible to pass provisioning profiles (or any kind of data) via repository overrides. This can be done using the following command:

bazel build --override_repository=provisioning_profiles=$path_to_directory

Here, $path_to_directory should point to a valid Bazel workspace, which includes:

• A WORKSPACE file (this can be empty)
• A BUILD file that contains exports_files(['Profile.mobileprovision'])
• Profile.mobileprovision

Once set up, it can be used with ios_application:

ios_application(
    ...
    provisioning_profile = "@provisioning_profiles//Profile.mobileprovision"
    ...
)

[louwers]

We are now generating a .bzl file with a Team ID and a Profile UUID as a workaround.