[Booki-dev] After updating from Git I'm missing a database column for my install of Booki

[James Simmons]

Aleksandar,

I figured it out.  I had left off the hyphens on "fake".  I had entered

manage.py migrate --all 0001 fake

When I was supposed to enter:

manage.py migrate --all 0001 --fake

When I read the "south" tutorial it made it clear what the problem
was.  I did get some errors, as you warned me, on the "0002" command,
but it did seem to work.

Thanks much,

James Simmons


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Aleksandar Erkalovic
<aerkalov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:37 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the simplest way to add this column to my database without
>> losing all the data I have in there now?  I have been working on a
>> book which is nearly finished and while I *could* recover by copying
>> from one of my latest EPUB exports I'd really rather not do that.
>
> 1.) you have to install "south" (http://south.aeracode.org/)
>   easy_install South
>
> 2.) then you have to update your settings.py and add "south" to INSTALLED_APPS.
>
> 3.) load your environment variables for your local install, or don't
> load them and use manage.py instead of django-admin
>
> 4.) django-admin syncdb
>
> 5.) django-admin migrate --all 0001 --fake
>
> 5.) django-admin migrate --all 0002
>
> you might get some errors (i did get them), but it did manage to
> migrate the database. scream if you have problems.
>
> this was not suppose to happen, but we merged branch before we wrote
> docs for this for some other reason. also, there will be new migration
> soon (but you will get docs and scripts for that migration). both
> migrations were suppose to happen at the same time, so that's why we
> kind of have it this way. anyhoo, be aware that ALTER TABLE in sqlite
> can only handle some of the operations, so in the future you might
> experience some problems with upgrading.
>
> aco
>
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