How to build Slackware packages with TeamCity.

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 TeamCity?

TeamCity is a build server and a suite of developer productivity tools. It is a smart, user-friendly solution for effective software projects management. TeamCity enables developers to track changes in source code, compile projects, execute all kinds of tests, control versions, gather reports and generate artifacts. In addition, the distributed builds technology helps to organize multiple development locations.

Building Slackware package with TeamCity via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Slackware package with TeamCity, 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 TeamCity.