django-south

I'd prefer not to destroy all the users on my site. But I want to take advantage of Django 1.5's custom pluggable user model. Here's my new user model: class SiteUser(AbstractUser): site = models.ForeignKey(Site, null=True) Everything works with my new model on a new install (I've got other code, along with a good reason for doing this--all of which are irrelevant here). But if I put this on my live site and syncdb & migrate, I'll lose all my users or at least they'll be in a different, orphaned table than the new table created for my new model. I'm familiar with South, but based on this post

I have an application which is in BETA mode. The model of this app has some classes with an explicit primary_key. As a consequence Django use the fields and doesn't create an id automatically. class Something(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=64, primary_key=True) I think that it was a bad idea (see unicode error when saving an object in django admin ) and I would like to move back and have an id for every class of my model. class Something(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=64, db_index=True) I've made the changes to my model (replace every primary_key=True by

I've been hunting for an answer to this on South's site, Google, and SO, but couldn't find a simple way to do this. I want to rename a Django model using South. Say you have the following: class Foo(models.Model): name = models.CharField() class FooTwo(models.Model): name = models.CharField() foo = models.ForeignKey(Foo) and you want to convert Foo to Bar, namely class Bar(models.Model): name = models.CharField() class FooTwo(models.Model): name = models.CharField() foo = models.ForeignKey(Bar) To keep it simple, I'm just trying to change the name from Foo to Bar , but ignore the foo member in

After running: $ ./manage.py migrate I am getting the following error: -bash: ./manage.py: Permission denied Trying to run a migration after making a change in the DB. Any advice would be really appreciated. You need to make manage.py executable to excecute it. Do chmod +x manage.py to make it excecutable. Alternately you can do python manage.py <cmd> instead. Bamara Coulibaly To give yourself execute permission for the file containing the script use the command: chmod u+rwx filename.py To give other users permission to read and execute but not alter the shell script use: chmod go+rx filename

I've accumulated quite a few migrations using South (0.7) and Django (1.1.2) which are starting to consume quite a bit of time in my unit tests. I would like to reset the baseline and start a fresh set of migrations. I've reviewed the South documentation , done the usual Google/Stackoverflow searching (e.g. "django south (reset OR delete OR remove) migration history") and haven't found anything obvious. One approach I've contemplated would involve "starting over" by "removing" South or "clearing" the history manually (e.g. clear the db table, remove migration files from the migrations director