[Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1 and Postorius 1.0 alpha 1

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:13, Florian Fuchs <f at state-of-mind.de> wrote:

> Hi Odhiambo,
>
> Am 28.03.12 17:13, schrieb Odhiambo Washington:
> > Hey Jeff and all,
> >
> > I followed the "five minute guide", but I am hitting a brickwall:
> >
> > [root at jaribu] /usr/home/wash/Tools/Mailman/MM3/postorius/dev_setup#
> python
> > manage.py syncdb
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "manage.py", line 29, in <module>
> >     execute_manager(settings)
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py",
> > line 459, in execute_manager
> >     utility.execute()
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py",
> > line 382, in execute
> >     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py",
> > line 196, in run_from_argv
> >     self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py",
> > line 232, in execute
> >     output = self.handle(*args, **options)
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py",
> > line 371, in handle
> >     return self.handle_noargs(**options)
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py",
> > line 57, in handle_noargs
> >     cursor = connection.cursor()
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4-py2.7.egg/django/db/backends/dummy/base.py",
> > line 15, in complain
> >     raise ImproperlyConfigured("settings.DATABASES is improperly
> > configured. "
> > django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is
> > improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings
> > documentation for more details.
>
> You're doing nothing wrong! Except you're using the latest Django
> version (1.4) which was released only some days ago... :-)
>
> In Django 1.2 support for multiple databases has been added, so they
> extended the format of the db definition in settings.py. It looks like
> in 1.4 the old format (which we have used so far) is no longer supported
> which most definitely causes the above error to be thrown.
>
> Changing the DATABASE setting in dev_setup/settings.py should do the
> trick. Like here:
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/settings/#databases
>
> I will fix that in our launchpad branch as well, so these changes will
> go into the next alpha (which will probably be released not too far from
> now... :-)
>
> Florian
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > Can anyone tell what I am doing wrong?
>
>

Hi Florian,

Thanks for that.

Thata fixed my issue:

[root at jaribu] /usr/home/wash/Tools/Mailman/MM3/postorius/dev_setup# python
manage.py syncdb
Creating tables ...
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group_permissions
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user_user_permissions
Creating table auth_user_groups
Creating table auth_user
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site
Creating table django_admin_log
Creating table social_auth_usersocialauth
Creating table social_auth_nonce
Creating table social_auth_association

You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any
superusers defined.
Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes
Username (leave blank to use 'root'): admin
E-mail address: odhiambo at gmail.com
Password:
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)


However, I am lost as to why the argument to this procedure was named
"syncdb" and not "createdb", which is what it's doing. Can you explain that
please? Sorry, I am a noob in this.


-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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