diff --git a/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
index b42ae02e41..6426b7de0e 100644
--- a/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@
   user: name="copr-service" groups=apache,packager generate_ssh_key=yes ssh_key_bits=2048 ssh_key_file=.ssh/id_rsa
 
 - name: make sure directories are owned by copr-service user
-  shell: chown -R copr-service:copr-service /var/log/copr-dist-git /var/lib/copr-dist-git
+  shell: chown -R copr-service:copr-service /var/log/copr-dist-git
+
+- name: make sure directories are owned by copr-service:packager user
+  shell: chown -R copr-service:copr-service /var/lib/copr-dist-git
 
 # set ssh key, so that copr-service could access gitolite
 - name: read pub key into var