Client package for non Debian clients

Client package for non Debian clients

[Ciro Iriarte]

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?.

I plan to produce them using http://build.opensuse.org which provides
a platform to create native packages for several distributions.

Regards.
CI.-

Re: Client package for non Debian clients

[Christian Ebner]

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