Add friendlier local file missing error

Closes #26481.

Signed-off-by: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index e7478bb4f..e6ce3729f 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -113,7 +113,12 @@ class CurlDownloadStrategy < AbstractDownloadStrategy
           had_incomplete_download = false
           retry
         else
-          raise CurlDownloadStrategyError, "Download failed: #{@url}"
+          if @url =~ %r[^file://]
+            msg = "File does not exist: #{@url.sub(%r[^file://], "")}"
+          else
+            msg = "Download failed: #{@url}"
+          end
+          raise CurlDownloadStrategyError, msg
         end
       end
       ignore_interrupts { temporary_path.rename(tarball_path) }