On 22 June 2012 12:03, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I analyzed and played with code signing on Windows using a self signed
> test certificate.
>
> Thanks to Andre and his Perl skills I was able to fix a strange build
> problem with a too long command line triggered from a makefile to perl.
> Anyway this is solved now.
>
> I have now signed a full install set and would like to ask if somebody
> is interested to test it and give me feedback.
>
> You can find a signed download file under
> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/signing_test/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe
>
> NOICE: this is a build based on AOO34 branch without the updated version
> numbers. It's no dev build, please be careful if you test it.

Just a suggestion: since you are testing the signing process here, the
actual content is irrelevant.
So you could make a much smaller file that just installs a text file
(or something like that).

> I have to check the whole process and probably have to improve some
> things to make it final. The last important step is triggered manual by
> now.
>
> I use a Personal Information Exchange file (*.pfx) of my self signed
> certificate with a passcode that is specified during the build process.
>
> This seems to be a good approach to handle a certificate in this
> scenario and during our build process.
>
> I will keep you informed...
>
> Juergen

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