diff --git a/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.0-r1.ebuild
index 4ed6025a28428..7b78e53c8ddbf 100644
--- a/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 
 src_unpack() {
 	default
-	find ${P} -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} + || die
-	find ${P} -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} + || die
+	chmod -R a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w ${P} || die
 }
 
 python_prepare_all() {
diff --git a/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.2-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.2-r1.ebuild
index 613b4dcc67353..1e3890860051d 100644
--- a/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/google-apputils/google-apputils-0.4.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 
 src_unpack() {
 	default
-	find ${P} -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} + || die
-	find ${P} -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} + || die
+	chmod -R a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w ${P} || die
 }
 
 python_test() {