How do we manually fix “ResourceRules.plist: cannot read resources” error after xcode 6.1 upgrade?

Question

We are having the same issue found here, here, here and here

Basically we upgraded to xcode 6.1 and our build are getting the \"ResourceRules.plist: cannot read reso

Answer 1

After the new release of XCode 7 on 23rd Sept 2015, Apple started rejecting any application that is using CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH, making the Jenkins build automatically rejected. However, setting CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH=$(SDKROOT)/ResourceRules.plist into the Custom xcodebuild arguments causes a build failure.

This answer resolved the issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32762413/5373468

This is clearly a bug that Apple forgot to fix a while ago, as this article is also highlighting: http://cutting.io/posts/packaging-ios-apps-from-the-command-line/