PMT and PMTX programs on standalone debian

[NaN]

I am intrested in installing and running the pmt and pmtx programs independently of PBS. This is due to how much easier they are to parse than the MT and MTX programs with the json output. I have added the PBS repository to a deibian VM but cannot seem to find theese packages in the apt list

What is the best way to go about installing these packages independently?

Are you (proxmox team) intrested in submitting these packages upstream to debian?

 

[dcsapak]

What is the best way to go about installing these packages independently?

sadly pmt/pmtx are not packaged seperately, they are contained in the 'proxmox-backup-server' package
the reason is that pmt uses some features that are only available on pbs (such as mapping devices (/dev/sgX) in it's config to a drive name; autoselection of a drive when there is only one etc.)
you could either
* install the package and disable all pbs services (proxmox-backup-proxy, etc..)
* extract the binary from the package (a .deb file is basically an archive)

while we're not opposed to separate the binaries from the remaining code, it's currently not on our to-do list, but we would probably accept it if someone would send patches for that..

Are you (proxmox team) intrested in submitting these packages upstream to debian?

atm that's not really possible AFAIK, since not every one of our rust dependency is packaged in debian (neither in stable nor unstable or sid) and those would have to be packaged first
also, we use some of our own helper crates as dependencies which would also have to be packaged if we wanted to bring this upstream..