[QGIS-Developer] Question on signed windows installers

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> Hi Jürgen,
>
> Thanks a lot for the explanations, your work and efforts around signing
> and fixing the weeklies!
>

​+1 - its really great that you did this, thanks Jürgen!

Regards

Tim​



> Another step in order to make QGIS more professional.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2017-08-22 10:41, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Tue, 22. Aug 2017 at 09:39:48 +0200, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>
> I noticed that the Windows all-in-one installers are now signed (Open
> Source Geospatial Foundation). Is 2.18.12 the first signed version or
> were the previous versions also signed?
>
>
> Yes, it's the first one.
>
>
> In any case - wanted to report back that our AV scanner did not complain
> about 2.18.12, whereas it "swallowed" the QGIS 3 weekly without even
> visibly notifying (only in the log file one could see that QGIS 3 was
> sent to quarantine and the original installer file removed). Perhaps
> signing installers builds trust with AV software? Installing over
> OSGEO4W installer is always fine.
>
>
> The weeklies apparently weren't built for a while.  Did anyone else notice?
>
> I added signing for the weekly yesterday.  Requires wine and in turn xvfb -
> because we need to produce an extra installer that installs an
> uninstaller, so
> we can sign it and include it in the actual installer - runs fine locally
> (but
> w/o xvfb), but currently the final step crashes with a bus error on
> qgis2...
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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