entitlement 'application-identifier' has value not permitted by a provisioning profile

Question

I know this question is being asked several times, but I guess currently, I am little frustrated with this entire signing concept, which tends to be so tedious than even coding and sometimes hilarious how Apple have really messed it up in different versions. When I try to build the distribution ipa file from XCode 4.2, the ipa builds fine and can be installed successfully, however in XCode 4.3.2, the app never gets installed but gives me the error: Jun

: entitlement 'application-identifier' has value not permitted by a provisioning profile

Now, I am trying to build it through xcodebuild using my mobile.provision and everything seams to look fine until ipa is being generated. However, when installing the app through itunes, this is the error that keeps getting generated. After surfing through blogs/google_search/etc it seams there might be some issue with entitlements which I have no clue how to go and fix this or what might be an issue there anyways?

I hope someone can direct me to the right direction regarding a fix for this.

Thanks

Answer 1

The way I solved my problem was first, I was not signing the build with proper provisioning. You can indicate the path of the mobileprovision, or if its being added then simply you can goto XCode Organizer and select the correct provision, right click and show the provision in the finder. If you reflect the names in Organizer and in finder are totally different, and I am not sure why apple tends to keep it like that but that's where one error occurred. After that when I tried compiling and installing the ipa on the device, I encountered another error as "entitlement 'application-identifier' has value not permitted by a provisioning profile" as it is not a group member. After going through different blogs and searches it seamed like in Apple's technical note it indicated that if you are building your app for distribution the parameter in dist.plist file "get-task-allow" should be set to as FALSE. Although it indicates that in XCode 4.2, since entitlements is being taken care for you, the type of compilation you choose should reflect to that as well, but apparently that didn't reflected to FALSE. So after switching that to false, the ipa finally got installed to the device. Again, this is for enterprise distribution purpose, so hope in future this may help someone and save some hassle.