Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables

I upgraded my 2015 MBP 13" to Catalina and happily continue to Mac stint since 2006.

What does df -h in the terminal say?

It'll show the total of each partition (the normal, and the new read-only system partition) on their own line, thereby giving a false total. e.g. 1x 100GB disk, 50GB normal, 50GB system partition will show as capacity 100GB for both partitions which would mean a 200GB disk.

Small things like this just make me completely lose faith in Catalina.

EDIT: Other "fun" things I noticed within half an hour:

a. Text search in PDF no longer works

b. I can't create anything under /

c. I have to use synthetic.conf to map paths from / to my real partition, but the parser of synthetic.conf is very particular to tabs/spaces unlike any other /etc/ file format

d. Xcode wants to ask for my password to debug every single time I reboot and debug a C++ app. This is incredibly incredibly incredibly incredibly annoying.

Safari is faster in general use. But that's so far the only good point.

I'll keep it on a SSD for App Store submissions and keep my machine on an older decent version thanks

> a. Text search in PDF no longer works

Oh is this macOS? I'd just assumed all the PDFs I've tried to search for the past while have been poorly formatted with the text as images, but that makes more sense.

> I'll keep it on a SSD for App Store submissions and keep my machine on an older decent version thanks

FYI it's pretty easy to integrate binary upload to App Store Connect on the CLI of your CI system.

> Text search in PDF no longer works

In Safari or in general? I have only noticed the former.

> I have to use synthetic.conf to map paths from / to my real partition, but the parser of synthetic.conf is very particular to tabs/spaces unlike any other /etc/ file format

You may already know this, but man synthetic.conf will explain that you must use tabs.

> Xcode wants to ask for my password to debug every single time I reboot and debug a C++ app. This is incredibly incredibly incredibly incredibly annoying.

I can only offer you my condolences as I cruise by with SIP off.

Checkout `DevToolsSecurity` on the command line. Could help with d. :)

I keep a copy of Skim around for any time I want to do a proper search of a document.

Thanks, do you have any pointers on binary upload via CLI etc.?

Thanks for this

I've used Bitrise for iOS CI, in which case their integration just takes your Apple username/password as input in the build process. If you're scripting it yourself or testing locally you want to look at the xcrun altool command. (Which Apple doesn't document very well, but you can cobble together usage from Googling parameters/issues.)

* https://app.bitrise.io/integrations/steps/deploy-to-itunesco...

* https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...