Database migration support for FeinCMS with SouthΒΆ
If you don’t know what South is you should probably go and read about it right now!
FeinCMS itself does not come with any migrations. It does not have to: Its core models haven’t changed for several versions now. This does not mean South isn’t supported! You are free to use South to manage FeinCMS’ models which is a very useful technique especially if you are using Page extension modules.
The following steps should be sufficient to get up and running with South in your project:
Put a copy of South somewhere on your
PYTHONPATH
, withpip
,hg
or whatever pleases you most.Add
'south'
toINSTALLED_APPS
.Create a new folder in your app with an empty
__init__.py
file inside, e.g.yourapp/migrate/
.Add the following configuration variable to your
settings.py
:SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES = { 'page': 'yourapp.migrate.page', 'medialibrary': 'yourapp.migrate.medialibrary', # if you are using the medialibrary # which comes with FeinCMS }
Run
./manage.py convert_to_south page
and./manage.py convert_to_south medialibrary
That’s it!
Warning
You must not use migrations
as folder name for the FeinCMS
migrations, otherwise South will get confused.