Re: Client package for non Debian clients

[Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com>]

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Hello!,

I've added other target architectures per the extend of what
build.opensuse.org supports:

- 64 bits ARM
- 32 bits ARM
- PowerPC
- IBM Zseries

Any feedback would be more than welcome.

Regards,
CI.-

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 16:59 Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>

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