Simplify Chakra Updates

In Chakra, the best way to do updates to the system at this time is to use the command line. In Arch-linux you would use the following command.

sudo pacman -Syu

This command would synchronize the local package database information with the repositories and determine if there were any updates. If there are updates, it would then ask permission to proceed with the updates.

Chakra follows a similar pattern, but with one exception. Their community repository has a separate command to perform this function. Fortunately, the Chakra team rolled the pacman functionality into their command for the community repository. So only one command needs to be issued, instead of two separate ones.

ccr -Syu

To simplify things even further, one could use the alias command. The alias command allows one to associate one command for another, or even a command with a list of options for another, simpler one.

alias update='ccr -Syu'

Just an example.

alias -p

Provides a listing of existing aliases.

unalias update

Remove the update alias.

Then to find out when there is an update, you can install spun or apper.

ccr -S spun

or

ccr -S apper

Unfortunately, both only check against the distribution's repositories, not against the community repository. Though, with the alias all setup, you'll check the community repository every time you do an update.