Permissions of abstract model without fields not added on syncdb

[Dirk Eschler]

I've got an abstract model which has no fields and only defines permissions. The permission isn't added to the auth_permission table on syncdb nor is the content_type added to django_content_type. The app is in INSTALLED_APPS.

class Base(models.Model):

class Meta:

abstract = True
permissions = (

("can_do_foo", _(u"Can do foo")),

)

Is this a bug or am i missing something? I'm using django-1.2.1.

[Dirk Eschler]

class Base(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        abstract = True
        permissions = (
            ("can_do_foo", _(u"Can do foo")),
        )

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Yes - you are missing something. The model is abstract. That means it doesn't exist. As soon as you define a concrete subclass, the permissions, content type etc will be created for that concrete subclass; depending on how you have subclassed the concrete class, the permissions etc will be inherited.