1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index f2950e25c2..076a532360 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ python fixup_perms () {
                         else:
                                 return int(mode,8)
 
-                # Note uid/gid -1 has special significance in os.chown
+                # Note uid/gid -1 has special significance in os.lchown
                 def _procuid(self, uid):
                         if uid is None or uid == "-":
                                 return -1
@@ -514,14 +514,14 @@ python fixup_perms () {
 
         # Fix the permission, owner and group of path
         def fix_perms(path, mode, uid, gid, dir):
-                if mode:
+                if mode and not os.path.islink(path):
                         #bb.note("Fixup Perms: chmod 0%o %s" % (mode, dir))
                         os.chmod(path, mode)
                 # -1 is a special value that means don't change the uid/gid
-                # if they are BOTH -1, don't bother to chown
+                # if they are BOTH -1, don't bother to lchown
                 if not (uid == -1 and gid == -1):
-                        #bb.note("Fixup Perms: chown %d:%d %s" % (uid, gid, dir))
-                        os.chown(path, uid, gid)
+                        #bb.note("Fixup Perms: lchown %d:%d %s" % (uid, gid, dir))
+                        os.lchown(path, uid, gid)
 
         # Return a list of configuration files based on either the default
         # files/fs-perms.txt or the contents of FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES