Handle case collisions on case-insensitive systems
When running NixOps under Mac OS X, we need to be able to import store paths built on Linux into the local Nix store. However, HFS+ is usually case-insensitive, so if there are directories with file names that differ only in case, then importing will fail. The solution is to add a suffix ("~nix~case~hack~<integer>") to colliding files. For instance, if we have a directory containing xt_CONNMARK.h and xt_connmark.h, then the latter will be renamed to "xt_connmark.h~nix~case~hack~1". If a store path is dumped as a NAR, the suffixes are removed. Thus, importing and exporting via a case-insensitive Nix store is round-tripping. So when NixOps calls nix-copy-closure to copy the path to a Linux machine, you get the original file names back. Closes #119.
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- src/libstore/globals.cc 2 additions, 0 deletionssrc/libstore/globals.cc
- src/libutil/archive.cc 92 additions, 71 deletionssrc/libutil/archive.cc
- src/libutil/archive.hh 8 additions, 4 deletionssrc/libutil/archive.hh
- tests/case-hack.sh 19 additions, 0 deletionstests/case-hack.sh
- tests/case.nar 0 additions, 0 deletionstests/case.nar
- tests/local.mk 1 addition, 1 deletiontests/local.mk
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