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Nikhil bb62213e84 fix: install linux sysroot in configure, not via gclient hook (#653)
* fix: install linux sysroot in configure, not via gclient hook

`gn gen` was failing on the arm64 leg with `Missing sysroot
(//build/linux/debian_bullseye_arm64-sysroot)`. The previous design
relied on `git_setup` writing `target_cpus` to `.gclient` so that
`gclient sync`'s DEPS hook would download the cross-arch sysroot. That
chain breaks for any chromium_src that was synced before cross-arch
support landed (the hook is gated on .gclient state at sync time) and
for partial pipeline runs that skip git_setup entirely. Nothing in
configure declared or verified its sysroot precondition.

Make configure self-healing: on Linux, invoke
`build/linux/sysroot_scripts/install-sysroot.py --arch=<target>`
directly before `gn gen`. install-sysroot.py is idempotent (stamp file
+ SHA check), fast when already installed, and decoupled from .gclient
— it's exactly what the failing assertion's error message recommends.
The script accepts our arch names directly: `x64` translates to `amd64`
internally via ARCH_TRANSLATIONS, and `arm64` is a valid pass-through.

Also temporarily pin release.linux.yaml to x64 only while we validate
the sysroot bootstrap end-to-end. Flip back to `[x64, arm64]` once
arm64 is green.

* chore: pin release.linux.yaml to arm64-only for sysroot bootstrap test

x64 already builds cleanly — the failing leg is arm64 cross-compile from
an x64 host. Pin the config to arm64 to exercise the new
install-sysroot.py path in configure without burning time on x64.
Flip back to [x64, arm64] once arm64 is green.
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