Consider archiving NAR hashes

(Brain dump after a discussion with @zimoun at the 10 Years of Guix Event)

Guix (and Nix?) manifests store a checksum of the source/input files downloaded by the manifest. For tarballs, this is a hash of the tarball. For Git repo, it's the commit or tree hash (IIRC). For other VCSs without their own intrinsic hashes (Subversion, CVS, ...), Guix hashes the directory tree of the tip commit by formatting them in the NAR (Nix Archive) format.

We should investigate this format. If it is simple enough, we should be able to recompute this NAR manifest and store its hash as ExtID so it is available to Guix (and Nix?) via the vault.

Migrated from T4538 (view on Phabricator)

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