How to build Archlinux packages with TravisCI.

What are Archlinux packages?

Arch Linux is a simple and lightweight Linux distribution, and was created with the KISS principle. A part of the base of Arch Linux is the pacman package manager, which then makes it easy to install and update applications and how they work with each other. The simplicity and open community is conducive to attracting developers as well as using the operating system on a day-to-day basis. Power users can make changes to how their systems works, both visually and technically.

What is TravisCI?

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed Continuous Integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub. Travis CI is integrated with GitHub pull requests and supports all programming languages that can be built into docker images, making it very handy to setup.

Building Archlinux package with TravisCI via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Archlinux package with TravisCI, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management and integrations with your CI/CD tools. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Archlinux packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only TravisCI.