diff --git a/package/opkg/Makefile b/package/opkg/Makefile
index 45010c7f3a..e8aebcbb48 100644
--- a/package/opkg/Makefile
+++ b/package/opkg/Makefile
@@ -58,9 +58,6 @@ define Build/Compile
 endef
 
 define Package/opkg/install
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/etc
-	$(INSTALL_DATA) ./files/opkg.conf $(1)/etc/ 
-	$(SED) 's,$$$$S,$(BOARD),g' $(1)/etc/opkg.conf
 	$(INSTALL_BIN) ./files/postinst $(1)/CONTROL/postinst
 	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/bin
 	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/opkg-cl $(1)/bin/opkg
diff --git a/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf b/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index f7f96fe2b6..0000000000
--- a/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-src snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/$S/packages
-dest root /
-dest ram /tmp
-lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists
diff --git a/package/opkg/files/postinst b/package/opkg/files/postinst
index c479744500..6aa8731ee9 100644
--- a/package/opkg/files/postinst
+++ b/package/opkg/files/postinst
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 ln -sf "${IPKG_INSTROOT}/usr/lib/ipkg" "${IPKG_INSTROOT}/usr/lib/opkg"
+ln -sf "${IPKG_INSTROOT}/etc/ipkg.conf" "${IPKG_INSTROOT}/etc/opkg.conf"