Repositories and mirrors

OpenVox packages are published from a single server in Germany. If downloads from voxpupuli.org are slow in your region, install from one of the public mirrors listed on this page, or run a mirror of your own.

For the package names and the standard install flow, see OpenVox repositories and packages and Installing OpenVox agent: Linux.

Canonical repository URLs

Vox Pupuli hosts the OpenVox repositories and downloads under these names:

These names all resolve to the same server. rsync.voxpupuli.org is the tree that mirrors copy, so every mirror uses the same layout: the apt/ directory on a mirror corresponds to apt.voxpupuli.org, yum/ to yum.voxpupuli.org, and so on.

Note: apt.overlookinfratech.com, yum.overlookinfratech.com, and the s3.osuosl.org/openvox-* buckets are older names for the same server. They are not mirrors, and using them does not change download speed.

Repository layout

Within the apt/ tree, each distribution is a suite named after the OS and its release, such as debian12 or ubuntu24.04, and each OpenVox series is a component within that suite, such as openvox8.

Within the yum/ tree, repositories follow the pattern <series>/<platform>/<version>/<arch>, where <platform> is el, fedora, amazon, sles, or redhatfips. For example, the OpenVox 8 repository for EL 9 on x86_64 is yum/openvox8/el/9/x86_64/.

Signing key

All packages and repository metadata are signed with the Vox Pupuli key Vox Pupuli <openvox@voxpupuli.org>, fingerprint 0E26 4299 8700 2418 F951 3F2A 5FB9 99C2 D62F F3D9. The key is available at the root of the apt/ and yum/ trees as GPG-KEY-openvox.pub (ASCII-armored), and at the root of the apt/ tree as openvox-keyring.gpg (binary keyring). The openvox*-release packages install the same key. Mirrors carry these files, so you can fetch the key from the mirror you use.

Public mirrors

The following organizations mirror the OpenVox repositories:

Most mirrors carry the full rsync.voxpupuli.org tree with the same layout. The exceptions:

• Rackspace serves apt/, yum/, and downloads/, but not artifacts/. Its six sites (three in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Australia) share one hostname, and geographic DNS answers from the nearest one.
• The UK Mirror Service uses one directory per hostname instead of one tree: sites/apt.voxpupuli.org/, sites/yum.voxpupuli.org/, sites/downloads.voxpupuli.org/, and sites/artifacts.voxpupuli.org/. Its rsync service is rsync.mirrorservice.org.
• NFrance serves apt/ and yum/ only.
• CERN serves apt/, yum/, and downloads/, but not artifacts/. Its rsync service is rsync-linuxsoft.cern.ch::voxpupuli.

Choose the mirror closest to your nodes. Rackspace answers DNS queries from the nearest of its six sites, which makes it a reasonable choice for nodes spread across several regions.

Note: This table was last checked on 2026-10-05. The OpenVox project does not operate or monitor these mirrors, and a mirror can fall behind or go offline without notice. Before you depend on a mirror, compare the newest package in a repository directory against the same directory on yum.voxpupuli.org or apt.voxpupuli.org. To report a problem with the table, open an issue on openvox-docs.

Using a mirror

The openvox8-release packages always configure apt.voxpupuli.org or yum.voxpupuli.org. To install from a mirror, write the repository definition yourself instead of installing the release package. The examples below use mirror.rackspace.com; replace the base URL with the mirror you chose, and adjust the OS name and version to match your platform.

The UK Mirror Service is the one mirror where the base URL differs between apt and yum, because it keeps one directory per hostname. Use https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.voxpupuli.org where the examples have https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox/apt, and https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/yum.voxpupuli.org where they have https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox/yum.

yum and dnf

Create /etc/yum.repos.d/openvox8.repo. This example is for EL 9:

[openvox8]
name=OpenVox 8 Repository el 9 - $basearch
baseurl=https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox/yum/openvox8/el/9/$basearch
gpgkey=https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox/yum/GPG-KEY-openvox.pub
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Then install the package you need:

sudo dnf install openvox-agent

apt

Download the keyring from the mirror, then create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvox8.list. This example is for Ubuntu 24.04:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/apt/keyrings/openvox-keyring.gpg https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox/apt/openvox-keyring.gpg

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvox-keyring.gpg] https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox/apt ubuntu24.04 openvox8

The release package also installs an apt preference that pins openvox-agent to the Vox Pupuli origin, so that the OpenVox package wins over a package of the same name from another repository. Mirrors serve the same release metadata, so the pin still matches. Create /etc/apt/preferences.d/openvox-release.pref with the same content:

Package: openvox-agent
Pin: release o=Vox*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Then install the package you need:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openvox-agent

Managing the repository with Puppet code

If you manage repository configuration with OpenVox itself, the following resources produce the same configuration as the files above. Set $mirror to the base of the mirror tree, that is, the directory that contains apt/ and yum/. To use the canonical repositories instead of a mirror, set it to https://rsync.voxpupuli.org. For the UK Mirror Service, which has no such directory, replace "${mirror}/apt" with 'https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.voxpupuli.org' and "${mirror}/yum" with 'https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/yum.voxpupuli.org'.

On the Red Hat family, use the built-in yumrepo type:

$mirror = 'https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox'
$os_major = $facts['os']['release']['major']

yumrepo { 'openvox8':
  descr    => "OpenVox 8 Repository el ${os_major} - \$basearch",
  baseurl  => "${mirror}/yum/openvox8/el/${os_major}/\$basearch",
  gpgkey   => "${mirror}/yum/GPG-KEY-openvox.pub",
  enabled  => 1,
  gpgcheck => 1,
}

On Debian and Ubuntu, use apt::source and apt::pin from the puppetlabs-apt module:

$mirror = 'https://mirror.rackspace.com/openvox'
$os_name = downcase($facts['os']['name'])
$os_major = $facts['os']['release']['major']

apt::source { 'openvox8':
  location => "${mirror}/apt",
  release  => "${os_name}${os_major}",
  repos    => 'openvox8',
  key      => {
    'name'   => 'openvox-keyring.gpg',
    'source' => "${mirror}/apt/openvox-keyring.gpg",
  },
}

apt::pin { 'openvox-release':
  packages   => 'openvox-agent',
  originator => 'Vox*',
  priority   => 1001,
}

Running your own mirror

You can mirror the repositories for your own network, for example to serve hosts without internet access, or offer a public mirror for your region. The origin server exposes two rsync modules, described in the OpenVox downloads and mirroring announcement:

These sizes are from September 2026 and grow with every release. Most mirrors need only the packages module. The artifacts/ directory holds build output from the release pipelines and is the largest part of the tree.

Keep the directory layout of the module so that the examples on this page work with your mirror unchanged. For example:

rsync -a --delete --delay-updates rsync://rsync.voxpupuli.org/packages/ /srv/mirror/openvox/

Sync from rsync.voxpupuli.org, not from another mirror. The public mirrors listed above sync between every 6 hours and once a day.

To have a public mirror listed on this page, add a comment to OpenVoxProject/planning#41 with the URL, location, protocols, sync interval, and a contact address, and open a pull request or issue on openvox-docs to add it to the table.