Blastwave.org Software Mirror Locations

Mirror Site status(es)

We can not control the rate at which mirrors are updated. Therefore you may need to verify that your mirror of choice is current.
Please check with our mirror status page before selecting a mirror.

Mirror Site instructions and information

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

Add either "/unstable" or "/stable" to the end of one of the URLs below. The "unstable" changes quite often and you will get the most up to date software from there. The software in the "stable" tree is a little older and has been through a complete bug review process. This does not imply that it is bug-free. It does state that there are no open bugs filed against anything in the "stable" tree. Most people choose "unstable".

The good news is, James Lee has volunteered to be our "stable" tree maintainer, as of 2005. Currently, we do once-a-quarter updates of packages in stable.

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.,

Mirror Site status(es)

We can not control the rate at which mirrors are updated: thus, you need to verify that your mirror is current.
Please check with our mirror status page before selecting a mirror.

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!

(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://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

http://mirrors.playboy.com/Blastwave/

http://ftp.iforceready.it/pub/blastwave/csw
ftp://ftp.iforceready.it/pub/blastwave/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/packages/csw
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/csw

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://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://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://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

Decomissioned sites

Please note that the following sites have been decomissioned. They should no longer be used as mirror sites.

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

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. 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

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:

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

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

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

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://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.

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:

wget http://www.blastwave.org/mirrors
gpg --import mirrors

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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