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Bug 287168

Summary: Cryptic message when installing feature on unsupported environment
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Greg Watson <g.watson>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: bill.hilliard, com-eclipse-dot-org
Version: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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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 ***