Regarding your comments: 1. The patch can be trivially reworked to be against the dkms source. Let me know if you need help with this.
2. The patch fixed the problem while unpatched it was erroring out. If ARCH is not supplied to the script, the script itself sets it. /bin/sh on this machine is the standard lucid shell (dash). The output to your test code was 1. What happens when you try to install nvidia-current on a Lucid machine? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785937 Title: $ARCH in common.postinst breaks everything -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs