Many thanks, the "mystery" of chowning has been solved.

Does anyone know how to make the ebuild to chown recursively the entire
directory and subdirectories?



On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:32 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:46 pm, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote:
> > I've been trying to create an ebuild file for Dr.Web antivirus and
> > encountered very strange and inconsistent behaviour. The fowners command
> > does not change the ownership of files for some of the directories
> > listed in the ebuild file.
> 
> once something has been installed, portage wont touch the permissions
> 
> try `rm -r /etc/drweb` and then emerge your ebuild again
> -mike
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