Re: Client package for non Debian clients

[Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com>]

Hello!,

I've seen the statically linked binaries, which I'm glad even exist,
but I would prefer a proper package to handle the lifecycle (install,
upgrade, remove).

First jab at the problem:

        https://download.opensuse.org/download/repositories/home:/ciriarte:/pbs-client/

Building artifacts at:

        https://github.com/ciroiriarte/pbs-client

I've used a public OBS service offered by the openSUSE guys (which has
a farm of machines with different architectures), a private OBS could
also be deployed. If there's interest and your internal pipeline uses
something else, I'm happy to adapt an upstream contribution to it.

Ref:
https://openbuildservice.org/
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service

Regards,
CI.-

El lun, 10 ago 2026 a las 4:08, Christian Ebner
(<c.ebner@proxmox.com>) escribió:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 8/8/26 11:07 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> > Hello!,
> >
> > I've been a long time PVE user but I'm just starting with PBS now.
> > I've noticed that the documentation only mentions non-PVE client
> > (regular/file clients) packages for Debian.
> >
> > I would like to package the client for other Linux distributions, is
> > that something worth of being committed upstream somewhere or should I
> > just keep it as an unofficial satellite repo?.
>
> Proxmox currently provides a statically linked binary for the
> proxmox-backup-client, which runs on most modern x86-64 Linux systems
> [0]. The client is currently distributed as deb package only, can
> however be easily extracted from that archive.
>
> Currently there is no active work in providing other packaging formats,
> this might however be something worth looking into, also with respect to
> builds for other architectures.
>
> However, this must be tightly integrated with our internal workflow and
> pipelines, @Thomas opinions from your side?
>
> > I plan to produce them using http://build.opensuse.org which provides
> > a platform to create native packages for several distributions.
> >
> > Regards.
> > CI.-
>
>
> [0]
> https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-statically-linked-proxmox-backup-client
>
>