Adding a postinst hack, to change the permission/ownership in case the package is already present on the system. Without this hack, the permission/ownership changes to /sbin/ipw3945d and /var/run/ipw3945d wont be merged onto the ROOT filesystem.

(Portage version: 2.1.2_rc3-r6)

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net-wireless/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4.ebuild b/net-wireless/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4.ebuild
index 583385f76f33..cae6ca997439 100644
--- a/net-wireless/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4.ebuild
+++ b/net-wireless/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4.ebuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-wireless/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4.ebuild,v 1.2 2006/12/17 21:46:35 phreak Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-wireless/ipw3945d/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4.ebuild,v 1.3 2006/12/18 00:33:31 phreak Exp $
 
 inherit eutils
 
@@ -50,6 +50,28 @@ pkg_postinst() {
 	if [ -f "${ROOT}/etc/modules.d/${PN}" ] ; then
 		${ROOT}/sbin/modules-update --force
 	fi
+
+	echo
+
+	# These nasty live-filesystem fixes are needed, because if the files are
+	# already there, the permissions applied in src_install() won't get
+	# transferred to the live filesystem. Once portage is fixed with regard to
+	# this, these hacks can go away.
+
+	# Fix the permissions of /sbin/ipw3945d
+	ebegin "Fixing permissions of ${ROOT}/sbin/ipw3945d"
+	fperms 04450 ${ROOT}/sbin/ipw3945d
+	eend $?
+
+	# Fixing ownership of /var/run/ipw3945d
+	ebegin "Fixing ownership of ${ROOT}/var/run/ipw3945d"
+	fowners ipw3945d:root ${ROOT}/var/run/ipw3945d
+	eend $?
+
+	echo
+
 	einfo "The ipw3945 daemon is now started by udev. The daemon should be"
-	einfo "brought up automatically."
+	einfo "brought up automatically once you reboot. Also make sure when you"
+	einfo "update from a previous version, you need to reboot in order to"
+	einfo "replace an existing version of this daemon!"
 }