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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:31:31 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] Changing permission recursively
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Dear Baruch Siach,

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:55:28 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:

> How about running the following from a post build script (untested):
> 
> 	${HOST_DIR}/usr/bin/fakeroot -- chown -R UID:GID ${1}/path/to/directory

Does this actually works ?

My understanding of fakeroot is that you have to execute all the
fakeroot'ed commands under the same fakeroot invocation for the changes
made by these commands to actually have an effect.

Thomas
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