#545: Uninformative error message when cabal install download fails ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- 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: | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- 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? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects