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[clever@amd-nixos:/tmp/mnt]$ mkdir nix/store -pv
mkdir: created directory 'nix'
mkdir: created directory 'nix/store'
[clever@amd-nixos:/tmp/mnt]$ for x in $(nix-store -qR $(realpath /run/current-system/sw/bin/bash)); do nix-store --dump $x | nix-store --restore /tmp/mnt/$x ; done
[clever@amd-nixos:/tmp/mnt]$ ls nix/store/
2bid4ynk163hmypgz7b4aanq2i0d41c3-ncurses-6.0 cg0gxn11n6sadfrw3p7l8rh053gn3f0z-bash-4.4-p5 wxdn46939hsihi92z1f4shkal5nd6p3n-readline-7.0p0
3v5m2gn0kmxrg9xia0nqa491hmplvz2d-bash-4.4-p5 kk71vkqipf30qc165718jmp0s8cggn2y-glibc-2.24
[clever@amd-nixos:/tmp/mnt]$ ls nix/
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2017-02-22 22:23:16 < clever> copumpkin: oh, i just had an idea on something you can use
2017-02-22 22:23:23 < clever> $ nix-store --dump a | nix-store --restore b
2017-02-22 22:23:40 < clever> copumpkin: this will serialize a into a NAR, then deserialize it back into b
2017-02-22 22:25:32 < clever> copumpkin: https://gist.github.com/cleverca22/cabae09e77e52bd51ba7c4bccb285b0b
2017-02-22 22:25:54 < clever> copumpkin: boom, i can now copy the closure of things into a given directory, though it completely ignores db.sqlite

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