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This is needed to avoid this https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/13774 when we go back to making our subproject directory `src`.
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Name
nix-store --dump - write a single path to a Nix Archive
Synopsis
nix-store --dump path
Description
The operation --dump produces a Nix archive (NAR) file containing the
contents of the file system tree rooted at path. The archive is
written to standard output.
A NAR archive is like a TAR or Zip archive, but it contains only the information that Nix considers important. For instance, timestamps are elided because all files in the Nix store have their timestamp set to 0 anyway. Likewise, all permissions are left out except for the execute bit, because all files in the Nix store have 444 or 555 permission.
Also, a NAR archive is canonical, meaning that “equal” paths always
produce the same NAR archive. For instance, directory entries are
always sorted so that the actual on-disk order doesn’t influence the
result. This means that the cryptographic hash of a NAR dump of a
path is usable as a fingerprint of the contents of the path. Indeed,
the hashes of store paths stored in Nix’s database (see nix-store --query --hash) are SHA-256 hashes of the NAR dump of each store path.
NAR archives support filenames of unlimited length and 64-bit file sizes. They can contain regular files, directories, and symbolic links, but not other types of files (such as device nodes).
A Nix archive can be unpacked using nix-store --restore.
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