diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f3293dc309..61a51fbbb6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
 	#3103: make external-deps wants to download gcc-.tar.bz2 when...
 	#3109: abnormal `make busybox-menuconfig`
 	#3115: How about board specific makefiles?
+	#3169: python patch has typo, aborts build in scenario
 	#3181: dhcp.mk copies S80dhcp-server to etc/init.d, not etc/init.d/
 
 2010.11, Released November 30th, 2010:
diff --git a/package/python/python-2.7-005-staging-headers-libs.patch b/package/python/python-2.7-005-staging-headers-libs.patch
index ab3d88e736..170e819709 100644
--- a/package/python/python-2.7-005-staging-headers-libs.patch
+++ b/package/python/python-2.7-005-staging-headers-libs.patch
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Index: Python-2.7.1/setup.py
 +        try:
 +            modules_lib_dirs = os.environ["PYTHON_MODULES_LIB"].split()
 +        except KeyError:
-+            modules_include_dirs = ['/usr/lib']
++            modules_lib_dirs = ['/usr/lib']
 +        for dir in modules_include_dirs:
 +            add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs, dir)
 +        for dir in modules_lib_dirs: