diff --git a/tests/content-addressed.nix b/tests/content-addressed.nix
index a46c21164..5ebc779c1 100644
--- a/tests/content-addressed.nix
+++ b/tests/content-addressed.nix
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@ with import ./config.nix;
 # The derivation can be arbitrarily modified by passing a different `seed`,
 # but the output will always be the same
 rec {
-  root = mkDerivation {
-    name = "simple-content-addressed";
+  rootLegacy = mkDerivation {
+    name = "simple-input-addressed";
     buildCommand = ''
       set -x
-      echo "Building a CA derivation"
-      echo "The seed is ${toString seed}"
+      echo "Building a legacy derivation"
       mkdir -p $out
       echo "Hello World" > $out/hello
     '';
@@ -18,23 +17,35 @@ rec {
     outputHashMode = "recursive";
     outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
   };
-  dependent = mkDerivation {
+  rootCA = mkDerivation {
     name = "dependent";
     buildCommand = ''
-      echo "building a dependent derivation"
+      echo "building a CA derivation"
+      echo "The seed is ${toString seed}"
       mkdir -p $out
-      echo ${root}/hello > $out/dep
+      echo ${rootLegacy}/hello > $out/dep
     '';
     __contentAddressed = true;
     outputHashMode = "recursive";
     outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
   };
-  transitivelyDependent = mkDerivation {
+  dependentCA = mkDerivation {
+    name = "dependent";
+    buildCommand = ''
+      echo "building a dependent derivation"
+      mkdir -p $out
+      echo ${rootCA}/hello > $out/dep
+    '';
+    __contentAddressed = true;
+    outputHashMode = "recursive";
+    outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
+  };
+  transitivelyDependentCA = mkDerivation {
     name = "transitively-dependent";
     buildCommand = ''
       echo "building transitively-dependent"
-      cat ${dependent}/dep
-      echo ${dependent} > $out
+      cat ${dependentCA}/dep
+      echo ${dependentCA} > $out
     '';
     __contentAddressed = true;
     outputHashMode = "recursive";
diff --git a/tests/content-addressed.sh b/tests/content-addressed.sh
index 5997a432f..b2e94fe1e 100644
--- a/tests/content-addressed.sh
+++ b/tests/content-addressed.sh
@@ -2,20 +2,23 @@
 
 source common.sh
 
-drv=$(nix-instantiate --experimental-features ca-derivations ./content-addressed.nix -A root --arg seed 1)
+drv=$(nix-instantiate --experimental-features ca-derivations ./content-addressed.nix -A rootCA --arg seed 1)
 nix --experimental-features 'nix-command ca-derivations' show-derivation --derivation "$drv" --arg seed 1
 
 testDerivation () {
     local derivationPath=$1
     local commonArgs=("--experimental-features" "ca-derivations" "./content-addressed.nix" "-A" "$derivationPath" "--no-out-link")
-    local out1=$(nix-build "${commonArgs[@]}" --arg seed 1)
-    local out2=$(nix-build "${commonArgs[@]}" --arg seed 2 "${extraArgs[@]}")
-    test $out1 == $out2
+    local out1 out2
+    out1=$(set -e; nix-build "${commonArgs[@]}" --arg seed 1)
+    out2=$(nix-build "${commonArgs[@]}" --arg seed 2 "${secondSeedArgs[@]}")
+    test "$out1" == "$out2"
 }
 
-testDerivation root
+testDerivation rootCA
 # The seed only changes the root derivation, and not it's output, so the
 # dependent derivations should only need to be built once.
-extaArgs=(-j0)
-testDerivation dependent
-testDerivation transitivelyDependent
+secondSeedArgs=(-j0)
+# Don't directly build depenentCA, that way we'll make sure we dodn't rely on
+# dependent derivations always being already built.
+#testDerivation dependentCA
+testDerivation transitivelyDependentCA