On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, r0ller wrote: > By the way, what kind of difference is indicated by the number in the > 'nb<number>' suffix?
Means the original code (upstream source) was not changed. The nb means we may be building or installing it differently (like due to a new patch, new build option, or a dependency change, for example). > Another question would be if it's possible to keep different > versions of a package installed? I know in case of shared libs it may > be tricky because of the symlinks but the runtime linker is not > looking for the symlink I hope but the versioned soname, right? Any > hints are welcome! Well if you build your own from pkgsrc, you can use a different PKG_DBDIR and LOCALBASE. (Maybe bootstrap it with different settings.) But then you have an additional install to manage and lots of resources potentially wasted. (Sorry you had a package disappear.)