Tizen SDK re-install –> signing failed when trying to build a TPK

Tizen SDK re-install –> signing failed when trying to build a TPK

BY 29 Jun 2015 SDK & IDE

I’m having seemingly unsolvable issues generating such a TPK using Tizen SDK 2.3.0 Rev2 that is accepted during the Tizen Store validation process.  So I thought I’d install the previous SDK release of 2.3.0 Rev1 on a clean development environment, to see if a TPK generated by the previous SDK may be suitable for submitting into the Tizen Store.  My previous calamities are described in the following forum topics:

Native app validation rejected

Have you got a Tizen 2.3 mobile native app already published in the Tizen Store?

Problem is: even though I’ve managed to install SDK 2.3.0 Rev1 and the Tizen 2.3 Certificate Extension package, and copied the old \tizen-sdk-data\keystore folder into the new machine’s \tizen-sdk-data\keystore folder, and registered the old author.p12 and distributor.p12 files in Preferences / Tizen SDK / Security Profiles, I get the following error when trying to build a TPK:

Start…
< Options >
-Build directory = C:/PROJECTNAME/Release
-Architecture = armel
-Package name = PACKAGENAME
-Package version = 1.0.2
-Package type = TPK
-Project name = PROJECTNAME
-Artifact name = projectname

Initialize… OK
Copying files… 
Stripping… OK
Copying files… OK
Signing… failed!

Did I miss something when migrating my installation? Is it necessary to register my old author.csr, author.pri, author.pub and device-profile.xml files?

Thanks,
Tamas

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