[Answer]-South – Migrate PyPI package

After you run that command, followed by ./manage.py migrate avatar the migration will be written to /migrations/0001_initial.py and to a table in your DB. For MySQL it’s south_migrationhistory.

As for deployment, my preference is to run the south schemamigration and migrate commands on production. And to keep the local migrations directory off production.

I do this because I usually perform more migrations in development, and (until 1.7, anyway) that directory can get rather unwieldy.