diff --git a/package/opkg/patches/012-strip-trailing-conffiles-whitespace.patch b/package/opkg/patches/012-strip-trailing-conffiles-whitespace.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd7d47d05a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/opkg/patches/012-strip-trailing-conffiles-whitespace.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- a/libopkg/opkg_install.c
++++ b/libopkg/opkg_install.c
+@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ unpack_pkg_control_files(pkg_t *pkg)
+      while (1) {
+ 	  char *cf_name;
+ 	  char *cf_name_in_dest;
++	  int i;
+ 
+ 	  cf_name = file_read_line_alloc(conffiles_file);
+ 	  if (cf_name == NULL) {
+@@ -279,6 +280,12 @@ unpack_pkg_control_files(pkg_t *pkg)
+ 	  if (cf_name[0] == '\0') {
+ 	       continue;
+ 	  }
++	  for (i = strlen(cf_name) - 1;
++	       (i >= 0) && (cf_name[i] == ' ' || cf_name[i] == '\t');
++	       i--
++	  ) {
++	       cf_name[i] = '\0';
++	  }
+ 
+ 	  /* Prepend dest->root_dir to conffile name.
+ 	     Take pains to avoid multiple slashes. */