copyPathToStore(): Preserve symlinks (backport #12448) #12451
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Motivation
E.g. in a derivation attribute
foo = ./bar
, if./bar
is a symlink, we should copy the symlink to the store, not its target. This restores the behaviour of Nix <= 2.19.Context
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