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Update notarization documentation
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raksooo committed Sep 5, 2023
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* *macOS only*:
* `NOTARIZE_APPLE_ID` - The AppleId to use when notarizing the app. Only needed on release builds
* `NOTARIZE_APPLE_ID_PASSWORD` - The AppleId password for the account in `NOTARIZE_APPLE_ID`.
Don't use the real AppleId password! Instead create an app specific password and add that to
your keyring. See this documentation: https://github.com/electron/electron-notarize#safety-when-using-appleidpassword
Summary:
1. Generate app specific password on Apple's AppleId management portal.
2. Run `security add-generic-password -a "<apple_id>" -w <app_specific_password> -s "something_something"`
3. Set `NOTARIZE_APPLE_ID_PASSWORD="@keychain:something_something"`.
* `NOTARIZE_KEYCHAIN` - The keychain in which the profile is stored
* `NOTARIZE_KEYCHAIN_PROFILE` - The name of the notarytool profile containing the credentials.
The credentials include Apple-ID, app specific password and team ID. Don't use the real
AppleId password! Instead create an app specific password and add that to your keyring. See
this documentation:
https://github.com/electron/electron-notarize#safety-when-using-appleidpassword
Create the notarytool profile:
1. Generate app specific password on Apple's AppleId management portal
2. Run `xcrun notarytool store-credentials <profile name> --keychain <keychain path>`.
Leave the first prompt empty and than fill in the rest with the credentials mentioned
above
3. Set `NOTARIZE_KEYCHAIN` and `NOTARIZE_KEYCHAIN_PROFILE` to the values specified in 2

1. Run `./build.sh` on each computer/platform where you want to create a release artifact. This will
do the following for you:
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