MySQL Bugs: #71221: Please add MySQL utilities to the yum repo that Oracle now provides

Bug #71221	Please add MySQL utilities to the yum repo that Oracle now provides
Submitted:	23 Dec 2013 22:11	Modified:	7 Feb 2014 13:57
Reporter:	Simon Mudd (OCA)	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Package Repos	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	for utiliities 1.3.x/1.4.x	OS:	Linux (CentOS 5.x/6.x)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Please add the MySQL utilities which include the fabric utilities to your new yum repo.

The file which contains the current yum repos does not mention a yum repo for the utilities:

[myuser@myhost ~]$ grep -i utilit /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community.repo 
[myuser@myhost ~]$ 

How to repeat:
See: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/ the downloads for 1.3 (GA) and 1.4 (DEV) are provided but there's no yum repo for this to make downloading easier and it easier to just get the packages and get them on a server.

Suggested fix:
Please create a new yum repo with with the MySQL utilities. (please provide an entry for the GA and Development releases (disable the development release by default).

This probably requires updating the mysql-community rpm:

[myuser@myhost ~]$ rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/mysql-community.repo 
mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch

Adding this to the repo makes it easier to get to your software and to download it on those platforms running RPM.

I was looking to download the latest DEV utilities to look at the fabric commands and while I can download the currently referenced packages: mysql-utilities-1.3.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm or mysql-utilities-1.4.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm later updates require me to check the Oracle site (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/) manually.

good reason to add this to the yum repo. the rpm I downloaded required:  mysql-connector-python which I had to download too (my yum repo was setup). This would have worked with a single yum install mysql-utilities had it been in the repo.

Hello Simon,

Thank you for the feature request!
Looking at the repo list on http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/
I see only MySQL Workbench is listed, it would be good to have both MySQL Workbench & Utilities.

Thanks,
Umesh

Posted by developer:
 
MySQL Utilities has been added to MySQL Yum Repository:

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

 http://mysqlrelease.com/2014/02/utilities-fresh-utilities-get-your-utilities-here/

MySQL Utilities is in the MySQL Tools sub repository together with MySQL Workbench.

At this time we have decided not to include development versions.

Thank you. All stuff is most welcome.