[Nix-dev] Prepending files to initrd

[Kosyrev Serge]

Roger Qiu <roger.qiu at matrix.ai> writes:
> Is there a way to detect the current CPIO format being used? Will it 
> always be `newc`?

At the very minimum you could manually iterate over the universe of
types your cpio provides, and compare the outputs with that of the
type-defaulted cpio invocation.

Not the prettiest solution, but one should be surprised if it wouldn't work.

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