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. We are very careful 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 pkgutil and then configure /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.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 pkgutil to install software.
Take note that if you use the “stable” tree then you may be a a number of revisions behind in software package versions, for the tradeoff of using packages that dont have as many bugs (often none) filed against them.
The best way to access a mirror site for individual machines, is via the pkgutil tool, which will install a package, and all its dependancies (although you may also choose to download and install packages manually).
You must install pkgutil v1.6.1. Blastwave.org catalogs now have md5 hashes for each package, and are 'signed' with a GPG digital signature for authenticity. Please see details in section 3 of the Blastwave HOWTO.
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 /etc/csw/etc/pkgutil.conf. For example:
... url=http://download.blastwave.org/csw/unstable ...
You must also have a working “wget” somewhere in your $PATH. The pkgutil software includes a working wget automatically.
Please look in /opt/csw/libexec/pkgutil for a wget binary as a last resort.
The pkgutil package may be found at the top level of any of the mirror sites.
Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 usually provide wget, in /usr/sfw/bin. If present, this will be used, if you do not have wget in your PATH.
You may then use pkgutil to automatically download and install software that you want from the mirror site. For example,
