[Hackage] #545: Uninformative error message when cabal install download fails

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#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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