--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/app/django/contrib/contenttypes/management.py	Fri Jul 18 18:22:23 2008 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
+from django.dispatch import dispatcher
+from django.db.models import get_apps, get_models, signals
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
+
+def update_contenttypes(app, created_models, verbosity=2):
+    """
+    Creates content types for models in the given app, removing any model
+    entries that no longer have a matching model class.
+    """
+    ContentType.objects.clear_cache()
+    content_types = list(ContentType.objects.filter(app_label=app.__name__.split('.')[-2]))
+    app_models = get_models(app)
+    if not app_models:
+        return
+    for klass in app_models:
+        opts = klass._meta
+        try:
+            ct = ContentType.objects.get(app_label=opts.app_label,
+                                         model=opts.object_name.lower())
+            content_types.remove(ct)
+        except ContentType.DoesNotExist:
+            ct = ContentType(name=smart_unicode(opts.verbose_name_raw),
+                app_label=opts.app_label, model=opts.object_name.lower())
+            ct.save()
+            if verbosity >= 2:
+                print "Adding content type '%s | %s'" % (ct.app_label, ct.model)
+    # The presence of any remaining content types means the supplied app has an
+    # undefined model and can safely be removed, which cascades to also remove
+    # related permissions.
+    for ct in content_types:
+        if verbosity >= 2:
+            print "Deleting stale content type '%s | %s'" % (ct.app_label, ct.model)
+        ct.delete()
+
+def update_all_contenttypes(verbosity=2):
+    for app in get_apps():
+        update_contenttypes(app, None, verbosity)
+
+dispatcher.connect(update_contenttypes, signal=signals.post_syncdb)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    update_all_contenttypes()