We're seeing this error with django trunk on Ubuntu 8.04 and OS X.
It's present when you use "django-admin.py syncdb" but not in "python
manage.py syncdb".
If you use django-admin on trunk then syncdb breaks.
The trac tickets relating to it summarise it all (7518 being a duplicate
of 5943) and the awaiting patch seems to fix the problem.
Apologies if its all in hand, just not really sure how "accepted"
tickets are then prioritised.
cheers,
Graham
Aware of the problem, aware of the patches for the fix. The problem is
testing - django-admin is one of the pieces of Django that doesn't
have an automated testing suite, so its quite easy to inadvertantly
break functionality with a 'trivial' patch (this has happened several
times in the past).
I've been looking at ways to improve on this situation, but even if I
don't find a solution for the testing issue, I intend to make sure
#5943 and a few other django-admin patches are in trunk before v1.0
lands.
Yours,
Russ Magee %-)