Bug 287168 - Cryptic message when installing feature on unsupported environment
Summary: Cryptic message when installing feature on unsupported environment
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270668
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: p2 (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC All
: P3 major (vote)
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Assignee: P2 Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2009-08-20 08:32 EDT by Greg Watson CLA
Modified: 2009-08-20 09:43 EDT (History)
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Description Greg Watson CLA 2009-08-20 08:32:30 EDT 
When installing a feature that is not supported in the current environment (in this example, installing a Linux feature on a Mac), the resulting message is so cryptic as to be useless:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Missing requirement 1250705290019 0.0.0.1250705290019 requires
'org.eclipse.photran.intel.feature.group [5.0.0.200908191105]' but it could not be found

The org.eclipse.photran.intel feature has an os requirement of "linux".

Is there some way to improve make this message more user friendly? As it stands, a user would have no idea as to what was causing the installation problem.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2009-08-20 09:43:50 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 270668 ***