[Haskell-cafe] Hackage package index download failure

[Tom Ellis]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:21:47PM +0200, Sean Leather wrote:
> I'm unable to download the package index file used by cabal:
> 
> $ cabal update
> Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
> cabal: Failed to download
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz : ErrorMisc
> "Error
> HTTP code: 502"
> 
> A few hours ago the error was a 503.
> 
> Anybody know what's going on?

The same happened to me.  Hackage appears to have certain problems at the
moment:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4gppm8/ann_hackagehaskellorg_is_down/