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Developer/User documentation pertaining to the Chrome OS build system.

Google-internal documentation can be found linked from the internal build team page.

For Developers

• Developer guide
• Imaging your device with Cros Flash
• Install packages to your device with Cros Deploy
• Bypassing tests on a per-project basis

For Sheriffs

• http://www.chromium.org/developers/tree-sheriffs/sheriff-details-chromium-os

For Build Contributors and other resources

• Help writing unittests using python-mock

• Python style guide

• Chromium OS Developer Guide

• Developing Chromium on Chromium OS (“Simple Chrome”)

• Misc. developer helper scripts

• Licensing for Chromium OS Package Owners

• Licensing for Chromium OS Developers

Build System Documentation

• Portage Build and FAQ

• Portage Package Upgrade Initiative

  • Portage Package Status Spreadsheet

• Build hacking

  • Chroot versioning (chroot version hooks)
  • Clearing all binaries (e.g. for a toolchain revert)

• cbuildbot Overview

• Buildbot Configure/Set up (Chrome Infra guide)

• Commit Queue overview

• CBuildbot

  • Commit Queue
  • Local Trybot
  • Remote trybot

Build labels

• Build-Tools
• Build-Tools-Cbuildbot (file new issue)
• Build-Tools-Paygen (file new issue)
• Build-Tools-Portage
• Build-Tools-Pushlive (file new issue)
• Build-Tools-SimpleChrome
• Build-Tools-Trybot
• Build-Tools label=stats (file new issue)
• Cr-OS-Packages

Or file a generic Build issue to be triaged by the build team at goto.google.com/cros-build-ticket.

Other Resources

• Build FAQ