I made a mess of my 5.3 installation. I cvsupped the ports tree, and then tried to get the gtk interface to Ruby to work, and reinstalled the port for gtk20. Firefox and Evolution then stopped working, complaining about missing libraries such as libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400 being absent - they have been replaced by ..so.600.
I tried doing ln -s ...600 ... 400, and the result was even worse; the applications ran, but all the text was scrambled. So I copied the original libraries over from another machine, and things SEEM back to normal. But I now have a machine that has libraries that don't match the ports tree.
How should I get myself out of this self-inflicted mess? Re-install gtk20, followed by all the applications that depend on it?
As a rule of thumb, after cvsuping the ports tree, BEFORE you run portugrade/portmanager - READ /usr/ports/UPDATING.
This also applies to the src tree. The reading of /usr/src/UPDATING should be second nature by now.
These files give you a heads up on things that have changed/added/removed and give you clues on how to handle issues (should they exist).
Many helpful scripts can be created to do what's needed within that file.
-- Best regards, Chris
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