Building Vanadium, need more details

henrybowman

Hi,
I am trying to build Vanadium and I'm looking for slightly more details than what is in https://grapheneos.org/build#browser-and-webview

I have gotten to through about half of this, but where it says:

Sync to the latest stable release for Android (replace VERSION with the correct value):
cd src
git fetch --tags
git checkout VERSION

I am curious how to determine what the correct VERSION is.

Thanks

nandohyphen1

henrybowman I am curious how to determine what the correct VERSION is

I'm assuming that would be the latest version of Vanadium which can be found here;
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases
Currently the latest release is 145.0.7632.26.0 so I'm assuming you would put;
cd src git fetch --tags git checkout 145.0.7632.26.0

henrybowman

Thanks for responding. I have tried that, other versions like 144.0.7559.109 or 118 or either of those with .0 on the end.

What I am getting when I do that is

$ git checkout 145.0.7632.26
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
android_webview/browser/metrics/aw_component_metrics_provider_delegate_unittests.cc
android_webview/browser/metrics/aw_metrics_filtering_status_metrics_provider_unittests.cc
android_webview/browser/metrics/aw_server_side_allowlist_metrics_provider_unittests.cc
ash/ash_strings_grd/IDS_ASH_CLIPBOARD_HISTORY_CONTROL_V_LONGPRESS_FOOTER.png.sha1
ash/capture_mode/capture_audio_mixing_unittests.cc
ash/capture_mode/capture_mode_camera_unittests.cc
ash/capture_mode/capture_mode_demo_tools_unittests.cc
ash/capture_mode/capture_mode_game_dashboard_unittests.cc
ash/capture_mode/capture_mode_unittests.cc
ash/capture_mode/gif_recording_unittests.cc
ash/style/dark_light_mode_controller_unittests.cc
ash/style/system_components_unittests.cc
ash/test/ash_unittests.cc
ash/webui/demo_mode_app_ui/demo_mode_app_untrusted_ui_unittests.cc
ash/wm/desks/autotest_desks_api_unittests.cc
ash/wm/desks/desks_unittests.cc
ash/wm/overview/overview_window_drag_histogram_unittests.cc
ash/wm_mode/wm_mode_unittests.cc
base/android/java/src/org/chromium/base/supplier/ObservableSupplier.java
base/containers/adapters_nocompile_cpp23.nc
base/containers/contains.h
base/containers/contains_nocompile.nc
base/containers/contains_unittest.cc
base/metrics/histogram_flattener.h
base/types/cxx23_from_range.h
build/rust/tests/test_cpp_including_rust/shared_unittests.cc
build/rust/tests/test_cpp_including_rust/static_unittests.cc
build/rust/tests/test_cxx_cfg/cxx_cfg_unittests.cc
chrome/android/features/tab_ui/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/tasks/tab_management/TabListEditorLegacyGroupAction.java
chrome/android/features/tab_ui/java/strings/android_chrome_tab_ui_strings_grd/IDS_ACCESSIBILITY_TAB_SELECTION_EDITOR_GROUP_TABS.png.sha1
chrome/android/features/tab_ui/java/strings/android_chrome_tab_ui_strings_grd/IDS_TAB_SELECTION_EDITOR_GROUP_TABS.png.sha1
chrome/android/features/tab_ui/junit/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/tasks/tab_management/TabListEditorLegacyGroupActionUnitTest.java
chrome/android/feed/core/java/res/values-sw600dp/dimens.xml
chrome/android/java/res/layout/manage_sync_settings_bottom_bar.xml
chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/firstrun/FirstRunSignInProcessor.java
chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/xr/scenecore/XrSceneCoreSessionInitializerImpl.java
chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/xr/scenecore/XrSceneCoreSessionManagerImpl.java
chrome/android/junit/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/signin/SigninManagerImplTest.java
chrome/app/extensions_strings_grdp/IDS_EXTENSIONS_ENABLE_TOGGLE_TOOLTIP_DISABLED.png.sha1
chrome/app/extensions_strings_grdp/IDS_EXTENSIONS_ENABLE_TOGGLE_TOOLTIP_ENABLED.png.sha1
chrome/app/extensions_strings_grdp/IDS_EXTENSIONS_ENABLE_TOGGLE_TOOLTIP_ENABLED_WITH_SITE_ACCESS.png.sha1
chrome/app/generated_resources_grd/IDS_FORCED_SAVE_TO_GDRIVE_DESCRIPTION.png.sha1
chrome/app/generated_resources_grd/IDS_PROMPT_DOWNLOAD_FORCED_SAVE_TO_GDRIVE.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_APP_BADGE_COLOR.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CONTAINER_IP_LABEL.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CONTAINER_NAME_LABEL.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CREATE.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CREATE_DIALOG_ADD_CONTAINER_BUTTON_LABEL.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CREATE_DIALOG_ADD_CONTAINER_LABEL.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CREATE_DIALOG_CONTAINER_EXISTS_ERROR.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CREATE_DIALOG_EMPTY_CONTAINER_NAME_ERROR.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_strings_grdp/IDS_SETTINGS_CROSTINI_EXTRA_CONTAINERS_CREATE_DIALOG_IMAGE_ALIAS.png.sha1
chrome/app/os_settings_str
Aborting

nandohyphen1

henrybowman strange that didn't work. Sorry, I'm not that technical to be able to help. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will come by to help.

eggy

henrybowman What's the confusion? You can't checkout if you have locally modified files. You have to revert or stash them via git commands. As you're clearly not a dev, I recommend that you use an LLM to help guide you through these errors.

Novalissoide

eggy As you're clearly not a dev, I recommend that you use an LLM to help guide you through these errors.

Please refrain from recommending AI to solve anything whatsoever in the support forum.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/11951-ai-generated-text-is-forbidden-with-the-exception-of-automated-translation/12

de0u

Novalissoide Please refrain from recommending AI to solve anything whatsoever in the support forum.

I think it's OK if people use LLMs "in private" -- they can be quite helpful. The forum rule is about posting what comes out of an LLM, because typically that is done by somebody who doesn't know whether the LLM output is accurate or inaccurate.

eggy

Novalissoide Well LLMs are now a standard for development. But yeah, I wasn't suggesting he post LLM gen stuff here. LLM would be perfect for answer his simple dev question and it should figure out how to build vanadium without our input.

Novalissoide

de0u Roger that, you're correct.

Novalissoide

eggy Yeah I get the point. I'm just concerned over how easy it turned out to be for LLM-output to be quoted around as coming from knowledgeable, informed agents.