From: Joerg Bruehe
Date: April 18 2005 4:04pm
Subject: Re: MySQL 5.0.4-beta has been released
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Hi!

Am Mo, den 18.04.2005 schrieb Josh Trutwin um 17:46:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:28:24 +0200
> Joerg Bruehe <joerg@stripped> wrote:
> 
> > [[...]]
> > 
> > Note that not all mirror sites may be up-to-date at this point. If
> > you cannot find this version on a particular mirror, please try
> > again later or choose another download site.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> The mirrors seem to have links to the source tarball, but I've
> downloaded 5 different files and each time I get:
> 
> # tar zxvf mysql-5.0.4-beta.tar.gz 
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Something amiss or am I losing it?

Hard to tell - for me, it works on our machine:

~/stage/Downloads/MySQL-5.0> tar ztvf mysql-5.0.4-beta.tar.gz | head
drwxrwxrwx 503/100           0 2005-04-16 21:10:24 mysql-5.0.4-beta/
drwxrwxrwx 503/100           0 2005-04-16 21:10:06 mysql-5.0.4-beta/bdb/
-rw-r--r-- 503/100        1998 2005-04-16 21:01:45 mysql-5.0.4-beta/bdb/Makefile.in
...

and it works on my private PC with a package downloaded from Sunsite Europe:
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.4-beta.tar.gz/from/http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mysql/

joerg@trift2:~> tar tzvf /opt/Downloads/mysql-5.0.4-beta.tar.gz | head
drwxrwxrwx 503/100           0 2005-04-16 21:10:24 mysql-5.0.4-beta/
drwxrwxrwx 503/100           0 2005-04-16 21:10:06 mysql-5.0.4-beta/bdb/
-rw-r--r-- 503/100        1998 2005-04-16 21:01:45 mysql-5.0.4-beta/bdb/Makefile.in
...


Are you sure it did not get damaged during transfer, or by your browser?
All I can recommend is to try another mirror.

HTH,
Joerg Bruehe

-- 
Joerg Bruehe, Senior Production Engineer
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com