Add option to fix broken terminfo detection on case insensitive FSes #124
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Terminfo databases can become corrupted on macOS hosts due to the following reasons:
Nix attempts to resolve these case conflicts by renaming the problematic files. However, this breaks terminal functionality since the affected terminfo entries become undetectable by software that uses them.
Example of affected directories:
An example of the resulting error:
To mitigate case conflicts, this PR makes the guest system copy terminfo entries from directories with lowercase letters to their uppercase counterparts. This ensures that when the Nix store is case-insensitive, access to
x/xterm-256colorwill redirect to its copy,X/xterm-256color. Conversely, when the Nix store is case-sensitive,x/xterm-256colorcan still be accessed directly.Closes #101