django south: models are shown as not synced even if they are (or should be)

Question

I am getting this after syncdb:

clime@den /var/www/loserti $ ./manage.py syncdb
Syncing...
Creating tables ...
Creating table tagging_tag
Creating table tagging_taggeditem
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Synced:
 > django.contrib.auth
 > django.contrib.contenttypes
 > django.contrib.sessions
 > django.contrib.sites
 > django.contrib.messages
 > django.contrib.staticfiles
 > django.contrib.admin
 > django.contrib.admindocs
 > django.contrib.flatpages
 > debug_toolbar
 > filebrowser
 > grappelli
 > tagging
 > south

Not synced (use migrations):
 - photologue
 - web
(use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these)

So I run migrate:

clime@den /var/www/loserti $ ./manage.py migrate
Running migrations for photologue:
- Nothing to migrate.
 - Loading initial data for photologue.
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)
Running migrations for web:
- Nothing to migrate.
 - Loading initial data for web.
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

But the result of syncdb is still the same:

clime@den /var/www/loserti $ ./manage.py syncdb
Syncing...
Creating tables ...
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)

Synced:
 > django.contrib.auth
 > django.contrib.contenttypes
 > django.contrib.sessions
 > django.contrib.sites
 > django.contrib.messages
 > django.contrib.staticfiles
 > django.contrib.admin
 > django.contrib.admindocs
 > django.contrib.flatpages
 > debug_toolbar
 > filebrowser
 > grappelli
 > tagging
 > south

Not synced (use migrations):
 - photologue
 - web
(use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these)

How is that possible and how to fix it?

EDIT: Here is a faint idea. Could it be that I used ./manage.py syncdb at some point to create new tables for these apps and I should have used migrations instead?

Answer 1

This is just a warning because those tables are managed by south and are ignored on a syncdb.

One solution would be to convert all of your tables to south and always run migrate instead of syncdb. I assume that you could edit manage.py in some way to run the migration instead of returning the message.

If you are no longer using south for those apps delete the migrations directory in the app.