Get Django South working on Heroku with custom user models?

Question

I'm trying to get South for Django to work on Hereoku. It didn't seem that hard, thanks to this example. However, I'm using a workaround for a bug in south that prevents initiating south when a custom user model is used in Django.

I use the following south commands local to initiate South (work around):

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py convert_to_south myapp
python manage.py migrate myapp 0001 --fake

After that I pushed the code to Heroku and tried the following steps on Heroku:

python manage.py syncdb // this didn't sync the south apps
python manage.py convert_to_south myapp 
// This gave the error saying that the apps were already added to south

My second try (after Heroku db reset and new push):

python manage.py syncdb // this didn't sync the south apps
python manage.py migrate 
// Same south error as described in the south bug ticket

Is there anyone who can put me in the right direction?

Answer 1

I've searched for the answer in many places, but the only solution seems to generate the migrations files locally and push them to Heroku. That's something I wish I could prevent, but it is the only working option.

Hopefully, this will be solves as of Django 1.7, when migrations are built into Django. Until then, I moved away from Heroku.