How to build Slackware packages with GOCD.

What are Slackware packages?

Slackware is a free distribution of Linux. It features a wide range of technology from printing to networking to services, and thanks to its advanced package management system, it’s incredibly easy to install and remove software to match your computer system's needs. Supporting this distribution is very easy, since it is backed up by a large community of developers and users.

What is GOCD?

GoCD is an open-source tool for automating software release management and continuous delivery, which has become the de facto standard in the industry. With its high flexibility & considerable power, GoCD can automate any build, test & deployment process. It includes powerful monitoring & auto-failover capabilities, supporting various scheduling algorithms including periodic, on-demand or one-shot. A web-based GUI makes it easy to configure jobs with drag-and-drop operations. GoCD is lightweight enough to run on any user's laptop, in all environments - IT department, developer machine, CI server.

Building Slackware package with GOCD via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Slackware package with GOCD, 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 Slackware packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only GOCD.