buildEnv: Check the content of colliding paths.

Originally wanted to include ignoreCollisions in cups-progs, but I think
it's better if we use ignoreCollisions only if there are _real_
collisions between files with different contents.

Of course, we also check whether the file permissions match, so you get
a collision if contents are the same but the permissions are different.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix
index 9b8b9daad94d..a9a4d95d7d8f 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 , # Whether to ignore collisions or abort.
   ignoreCollisions ? false
 
+, # If there is a collision, check whether the contents and permissions match
+  # and only if not, throw a collision error.
+  checkCollisionContents ? true
+
 , # The paths (relative to each element of `paths') that we want to
   # symlink (e.g., ["/bin"]).  Any file not inside any of the
   # directories in the list is not symlinked.
@@ -39,7 +43,9 @@
 }:
 
 runCommand name
-  rec { inherit manifest ignoreCollisions passthru meta pathsToLink extraPrefix postBuild buildInputs;
+  rec {
+    inherit manifest ignoreCollisions checkCollisionContents passthru
+            meta pathsToLink extraPrefix postBuild buildInputs;
     pkgs = builtins.toJSON (map (drv: {
       paths =
         [ drv ]