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LocalStore: Allow the physical and logical store directories to differ

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This is primarily to subsume the functionality of the
copy-from-other-stores substituter. For example, in the NixOS
installer, we can now do (assuming we're in the target chroot, and the
Nix store of the installation CD is bind-mounted on /tmp/nix):

  $ nix-build ... --option substituters 'local?state=/tmp/nix/var&real=/tmp/nix/store'

However, unlike copy-from-other-stores, this also allows write access
to such a store. One application might be fetching substitutes for
/nix/store in a situation where the user doesn't have sufficient
privileges to create /nix, e.g.:

  $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=/home/alice/nix/var&real=/home/alice/nix/store" nix-build ...
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Eelco Dolstra 2016-06-02 15:08:18 +02:00
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commit 4494000e04
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@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ Makefile.config
/scripts/nix-copy-closure
/scripts/NixConfig.pm
/scripts/NixManifest.pm
/scripts/copy-from-other-stores.pl
/scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl
/scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl
/scripts/build-remote.pl