diff --git a/images/archlinux-latest/build b/images/archlinux-latest/build
index 0506031..a6efde5 100755
--- a/images/archlinux-latest/build
+++ b/images/archlinux-latest/build
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ DISTRIB="archlinux"
 ARCH=${ARCH:-"armhf"}
 TARGET=${TARGET:-"rootfs-target"}
 CLEAN_PATHS="/root/.bash_history /root/.history /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hostname /etc/ssh/*_key* /var/log/bootstrap.log"
-PATCHES_DIR=patches  # without trailing slash
 PKGS_INCLUDE=${PKGS_INCLUDE:-"ca-certificates,cron,curl,iptables,iputils-ping,isc-dhcp-client,less,man-db,nano,nbd-client,net-tools,ntp,ntpdate,rsyslog,ssh,sudo,wget,whiptail,xnbd-client"}
 # MIRROR=${MIRROR:-"http://mirror.cloud.online.net/ubuntu-ports/"}
 VERSION=${VERSION:-"latest"}
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ patch_image() {
     sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf $TARGET/run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf
 
 
-    # FIXME: patch_target $PATCHES_DIR
+    # FIXME: patch_target archlinux-latest/patches
 
     # FIXME: locales
     # - do_in_target locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
diff --git a/images/lib.sh b/images/lib.sh
index faf7a6d..9c3d3f0 100644
--- a/images/lib.sh
+++ b/images/lib.sh
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ secondstage() {
 }
 
 patch_target() {
-    patches_dir=$1
+    patches_dir=../$1
     for file in $(find "$patches_dir" -type f | sed -n "s|^$patches_dir/||p"); do
 	sudo mkdir -p "$TARGET/$(dirname $file)"
 	sudo cp "$patches_dir/$file" "$TARGET/$file"