Author: Alexandru Plugaru <alexandru.plugaru@gmail.com>

Date:   Mon Mar 14 18:18:04 2011 +0000
Fixes #566167

Cherry-picked from svntrunk

src/zc/buildout/download.py

@@ -174,17 +174,20 @@ class Download(object):
         self.logger.info('Downloading %s' % url)
         urllib._urlopener = url_opener
         handle, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix='buildout-')
-        try:
         try:
             tmp_path, headers = urllib.urlretrieve(url, tmp_path)
             if not check_md5sum(tmp_path, md5sum):
                 raise ChecksumError(
                     'MD5 checksum mismatch downloading %r' % url)
-            finally:
-                os.close(handle)
-        except:
+        except IOError, e:
+            os.remove(tmp_path)
+            raise zc.buildout.UserError("Error downloading extends for URL "
+                              "%s: %r" % (url, e[1:3]))
+        except Exception, e:
             os.remove(tmp_path)
             raise
+        finally:
+            os.close(handle)
 
         if path:
             shutil.move(tmp_path, path)

src/zc/buildout/download.txt

@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ ChecksumError: MD5 checksum mismatch downloading 'http://localhost/foo.txt'
 
 >>> remove(path)
 
+If the file is completely missing it should notify the user of the error:
+
+>>> download(server_url+'bar.txt')
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+UserError: Error downloading extends for URL http://localhost/bar.txt: (404, 'Not Found')
+>>> ls(cache)
+
 Finally, let's see what happens if the download cache to be used doesn't exist
 as a directory in the file system yet: