trying to set a context

[mark]

Y'know, I know I'm asking for help, but I am so bloody frustrated that I
want to give an example of why most admins I know *loathe* selinux.

chcon doesn't last through reboots. Why? Or why have it?
semanage doesn't offer the most obvious flag: -R, recurse.

I've just restored a subversion repository from backup, after a drive
failed. Now I'm trying to set the context. I'm trying to follow Dan's
instructions in his blog
<http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28027.html?thread=197755>

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t 'mipav-svn/(*)'
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local:  line 5 has
invalid regex mipav-svn/(*):  Invalid preceding regular expression

Huh? Ditto without the parens. Nothing's changed. I went back and used
chcon -R, which operates the way I expect a *Nix command to, so that
selinux would shut up. But I want this permanent, so what's the magical
incantation? Do I have the wrong keyboard? Or light a candle?

         mark