[Hackage] #545: Uninformative error message when cabal-install fails on WinXP
#545: Uninformative error message when cabal-install fails on WinXP ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: abayley | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ "cabal install binary" fails on my WinXP machine with this error: Resolving dependencies... Downloading binary-0.4.4... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: binary-0.4.4 failed while downloading the package. Suspect it's related to proxy configuration, but the error message could be more informative. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#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: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by duncan): * difficulty: unknown => very easy (<1 hour) * summary: Uninformative error message when cabal-install fails on WinXP => Uninformative error message when cabal install download fails * milestone: => cabal-install-0.8 Comment: See also #448, though it can be improved without doing all of that. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545#comment:1> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#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 <duncan@haskell.org> * 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
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