#545: Uninformative error message when cabal install download fails
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Reporter: abayley | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: cabal-install-0.8
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Comment(by gtirloni):
As of Nov 9th 2011, cabal-install provides a lot of details:
{{{
...
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
GLURaw-1.1.0.1 depends on OpenGLRaw-1.1.0.2 which failed to install.
GLUT-2.2.2.1 depends on containers-0.4.2.0 which failed to install.
OpenGL-2.4.0.2 depends on Tensor-1.0.0.1 which failed to install.
OpenGLRaw-1.1.0.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
Tensor-1.0.0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
containers-0.4.2.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
directory-1.1.0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
foo-1.0 depends on time-1.2.0.5 which failed to install.
haskell98-2.0.0.0 depends on time-1.2.0.5 which failed to install.
process-1.1.0.0 depends on directory-1.1.0.1 which failed to install.
time-1.2.0.5 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
user error (The package requires Cabal library version -any && >=1.6 but
no
suitable version is installed.)
}}}
Does it satisfy this ticket's request?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545#comment:3>
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