Bug #64619 Download site confusion ...
Submitted: 12 Mar 2012 9:21 Modified: 6 Mar 2013 15:01
Reporter: Hartmut Holzgraefe Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.5.21 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[12 Mar 2012 9:21] Hartmut Holzgraefe 
Description:
When selecting "Linux - Generic" as download platform on 

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

there are two entries (one at the top, one at the bottom) labeled 

* Linux - Generic 2.6 (x86, 64-bit), TAR
* Linux - Generic 2.6 (x86, 64-bit), Compressed TAR Archive

from just looking at the names this looks as if the later is just a compressed version of the former while the first is actually a convenience tarball containing all the RPMs and the second is the actual classic non-RPM binary tarball

How to repeat:
see http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Suggested fix:
Rename the first entry to something like

 "Linux - Generic 2.6 RPM collection (x86, 64-bit), TAR"

or 

 "Linux - Generic 2.6 - all RPMs (x86, 64-bit), TAR"

to clearly show that this is *not* the classic binary tarball
[12 Mar 2012 9:22] Hartmut Holzgraefe 
(Synopsis typo fix)
[12 Mar 2012 11:47] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for the problem report.
[6 Mar 2013 15:01] Yngve Svendsen 
We no longer supply RPM rollup tarballs, so this issue is moot.