Mac Ports geodjango libgeotiff breakage

At some point in the last few weeks I did a Mac Ports update and gdal, which I use in Django broke.

Here's the exception (which gets silently captured and turned into HAS_GDAL = False):

>>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal.driver import Driver
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py", line 5, in 
    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.prototypes import ds as capi
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/ds.py", line 8, in 
    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.libgdal import lgdal
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py", line 37, in 
    lgdal = CDLL(lib_path)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 353, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: dlopen(/opt/local/lib/libgdal.dylib, 6): Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.1.2.5.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libgdal.dylib
  Reason: image not found

So something is linked to s version 1 of libgeotiff and it's been upgraded to 2. Here's what I have installed:

sh-3.2# ls /opt/local/lib/libgeotiff*
/opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.2.0.0.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.2.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.la
/opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.a

My workaround for the moment is:

ln -s /opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.dylib /opt/local/lib/libgeotiff.1.2.5.dylib

which seems to work but is obviously risky.

This post is really just a note to myself.