Blastwave.org Software Mirror Locations

Mirror Site status(es)

Please note: We can not control the rate at which mirrors are updated.
Therefore you may need to verify that your mirror of choice is current.

Page Contents

Overview
pkg-get configuration to use a mirror site
Current http/ftp mirrors
Unofficial sites (for out-of-the-way places)
rsync sites
Old versions of packages
GPG public key

Mirror Site Overview and information

You must choose a mirror site to obtain the packages from.
The site www.blastwave.org does not serve package downloads directly.

  Blastwave Software Stack

  The Blastwave Software Stack ( simply “the stack” ) is broken into three main trees of software packages.   The first tree is called “unstable” and it changes frequently.  Software packages are continually being updated and released to the public via the “unstable” tree.  The next tree is called “stable” and it will only change after release engineering has checked and reviewed all bugs filed against all software packages.  There is also an internal tree simply called “testing” and it is used for QA processes before a package enters the “unstable” tree.  Our current release manager is James Lee and he works closely with numerous others to ensure that only qualified software may enter the “stable” tree.  The “stable” tree will change only when a complete release is ready.  At most this will be four times a year, depending on various factors.  You must install pkg-get and then configure /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf to download software from a mirror listed below.  Simply add either "/unstable" or "/stable" to the end of one of the URLs listed below and then use pkg-get to install software.

  Take note that if you use the “stable” tree then you may be a few months behind in software package versions, for the tradeoff of using packages that dont have as many bugs ( often none ) filed against them. James Lee does a great job of migrating only packages with low or no bug count, into the stable tree.

The Blastwave Software Stack

If you use "stable", you will commonly be a few months behind in package versions, for the tradeoff of using packages that dont have as many bugs filed against them. James does a great job of migrating only packages with low or no bug count, into the stable tree.

Use pkg-get for best use of mirror sites.,

Using a mirror site, with the pkg-get tool

The best way to access a mirror site for individual machines, is via the pkg-get script, which will install a package, and all its dependancies (although you may also choose to download and install packages manually) .
You must install pkg-get v2.x or later.
blastwave.org catalogs now have md5 hashes for each package, and are 'signed'. Only pkg-get v2.x can fully take advantage of these new formats. To most easily take advantage of the checksums, you can use "pkg-get install textutils"

You must choose whether you want to download packages from the "stable" (tested for a while) tree, or the "unstable" (latest release, potentially untested) tree. The URLs given above are just a base url. You must then set the adjusted 'url' value in /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf . For example:
url=http://usesolaris.org/pub/csw/unstable
You must also have a working "wget" somewhere in your $PATH. If you dont have one, you can download a binary directly from the top level of any of the mirror sites. EG:
http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/csw/unstable/wget.i386
Happily, Solaris 9 usually comes with wget, in /usr/sfw/bin. If present, this will be used, if you do not have wget in your PATH.

You may then use pkg-get to automatically download and install software that you want from the mirror site. For example,
pkg-get install gcc
For more things you can do with pkg-get, see the pkg-get home page

Current public mirrors

If you have the bandwidth and disk space to spare to be another mirror site, in an area that is currently under-serviced, please let us know!

http://blastwave.network.com/csw is in North America

——› Set your url in /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf to http://blastwave.network.com/csw/unstable for the unstable tree

http://blastwave.unix-center.net/csw is in Beijing China

——› Set your url in /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf to http://blastwave.unix-center.net/csw/unstable for the unstable tree

(NOTE: Ibiblio.org is the default used by pkg-get )
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw

http://blastwave.solaris-fr.org/

http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/blastwave.org/
ftp://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/blastwave.org

http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/solaris/csw
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/solaris/csw

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/blastwave
ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/blastwave

http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/blastwave/
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/blastwave/

http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/blastwave
ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/blastwave

http://ftp.wayne.edu/blastwave
ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/blastwave

http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/blastwave
ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/blastwave

ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Solaris/csw

http://ftp.iforceready.it/pub/blastwave/csw
ftp://ftp.iforceready.it/pub/blastwave/csw/

http://mirror.unixheads.com/csw
ftp://mirror.unixheads.com/csw
rsync://mirror.unixheads.com/csw

ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/csw
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/csw

http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/blastwave/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/blastwave/

http://stoofo.math.uni.lodz.pl/csw/

http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/csw/ ( formally mirrors.sunsite.dk )
ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/csw/

http://csw.bsw.dk

http://blastwave.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/csw
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/blastwave.org
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/blastwave.org
http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/blastwave.org (IPV6) ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/blastwave.org (IPV6)

http://blastwave.berlios.de/csw

http://gigaload.org/blastwave.org (Germany)

http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/blastwave.org/
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/blastwave.org/

ftp://ftp.uninett.no/sun/csw

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/sun/csw (preferred)
http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/sun/csw

ftp://ftp.ru/pub/csw

ftp://ftp.d-tabor.lj.edus.si/csw

http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/csw
ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/csw

http://stevens.arl.psu.edu/mirrors/blastwave.org/csw

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/blastwave.org
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/blastwave.org

http://www.grangefields.co.uk/mirrors/blastwave.org/

http://mirror.pacific.net.au/csw
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/solaris/csw

http://planetmirror.com/pub/csw (Australia)
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/csw

http://ftp.df.lth.se/csw (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/csw

http://csw.almroth.com (Sweden)

http://csw.ch.bme.hu (Hungary)

http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/blastwave.org/ (Romania)
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/blastwave.org/

http://mirrors.xservers.ro/blastwave/ (Romania)

http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/blastwave (Czech Republic)
ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/blastwave

In general, http is the preferred transport.

Unofficial mirror sites
There are a few mirror sites that seem to have sprung up of their own accord, usually as a side effect of mirroring one of our primary mirror sites. It is unknown how often they sync up, or whether the sites are going to stick around. That being said, the fact that all the packages are md5-hashed and signed, means that if you have gnupg and textutils(md5) installed, it doesnt matter who mirrors the packages, as long as you have good download speeds from them!
Unofficial sites found so far:

http://www.consultico.de/csw

http://ftp.dk.xemacs.org/pub/sun/csw

http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/sun-packages/csw

http://ftp.ind.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.ibiblio.org/csw

http://ftp.pu.edu.tw/Sun/metalab.unc.edu/csw

http://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/solaris/csw

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/blastwave.org (UK)

rsync servers(for multi-machine installations)

If you would like to keep a local mirror of the full archives in an efficient manner, the following sites currently allow rsync connections
(test for yourself which ones give you best download speed!):

rsync://www.ibiblio.org/sun-packages/csw

rsync://ftp.math.purdue.edu/blastwave.org

rsync://ftp.lug.udel.edu/csw

rsync://rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/blastwave

rsync://carroll.aset.psu.edu/csw

rsync://sunsite.utk.edu/csw

rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/blastwave/

rsync://download.berlios.de/csw

rsync://ftp.belnet.be/packages/csw

rsync://ftp.d-tabor.lj.edus.si/csw

rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/blastwave.org

rsync://rsync.grangefields.co.uk/blastwave

rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/blastwave.org/csw

rsync://mirror.pacific.net.au/csw

rsync://csw.almroth.com/csw

rsync://stoofo.math.uni.lodz.pl/csw

rsync://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/blastwave

rsync://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/blastwave

This allows you to download all the packages once to a single machine, then point your internal machines' pkg-get configuration to that single internal machine, to maximize use of your local bandwidth speeds.
Note: do not use the -z option to rsync. The packages are all gzipped, which means -z will only slow things down. You should use the -H option, on the other hand, if you choose to mirror both "stable" and "unstable" portions of our archives.
Suggested options:
	
	rsync -aH --delete

Older versions

Some sites choose to update their mirrors without the delete option turned on. This means that all older packages are available from them. One such site is
http://blastwave.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/oldpkgs/

GPG public key

Here is the current blastwave.org public key, which is used to sign the catalog files to verify package integrity across mirror sites. This ensures that the md5 hashes are not tampered with, which in turn ensure that the binaries themselves are not altered.

gpg verification is optional. However, if you have gpg installed [via "pkg-get install gnupg"], pkg-get will attempt to verify the catalog. If you wish to have the catalog file (with its list of checksums for each package) verified by gpg, then you should save this page and add the public key to your root "keyring". Eg:

/opt/csw/bin/wget --output-document=/tmp/gpg.key http://www.blastwave.org/mirrors.php
/opt/csw/bin/gpg --import /tmp/gpg.key

If you have gpg installed, but do NOT wish gpg verification to take place, you must set "use_gpg=false" in /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf

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