#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 | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) Ghcversion: | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by duncan): {{{ Tue Dec 22 13:25:26 GMT 2009 Duncan Coutts * Display the exception for failed downloads Not great but better than nothing. }}} Now we get: {{{ cabal install foo Resolving dependencies... Downloading foo-1.0... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: foo-1.0 failed while downloading the package. The exception was: user error (openTCPConnection: host lookup failure for "null.haskell.org") }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects