I’m wondering what would be necessary to build GrapheneOS releases yourself, and regularly update your phone from your own servers, with your builds. The server for apps.grapheneos.org should also be replaced. Has anyone done this?
The documentation for GrapheneOS has a section about how to reproduce builds:
https://grapheneos.org/build#reproducible-builds
But it would be more involved than that.
Building an Android ROM is decently resource-intensive. Back when DivestOS was first discontinued, I wanted to see if there was anything I could do about rolling my own updates for my device. Decided against it once I saw how much RAM (or tradeoff being time) it would need.
Also I’m lazy and I’d probably miss security updates if I had to go through the build process as frequently as GrapheneOS updates.
Only the first build is so slow, the subsequent ones with new updates are a few minutes each.