diff --git a/openwrt/toolchain/ipkg-utils/1.7/ipkg-utils-1.7-ipkg_build_tar.patch b/openwrt/toolchain/ipkg-utils/1.7/ipkg-utils-1.7-ipkg_build_tar.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..441d3adf04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openwrt/toolchain/ipkg-utils/1.7/ipkg-utils-1.7-ipkg_build_tar.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+This patch from aorlinsk fixes an issue with order in options passed to tar
+
+  http://openwrt.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=8332#p8332
+
+
+--- ipkg-utils-1.7/ipkg-build.orig	2005-06-14 23:48:36.000000000 +0200
++++ ipkg-utils-1.7/ipkg-build	2005-06-14 23:50:03.000000000 +0200
+@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
+ mkdir $tmp_dir
+ 
+ echo $CONTROL > $tmp_dir/tarX
+-( cd $pkg_dir && tar $ogargs -czf $tmp_dir/data.tar.gz . -X $tmp_dir/tarX )
++( cd $pkg_dir && tar $ogargs -X $tmp_dir/tarX -czf $tmp_dir/data.tar.gz . )
+ ( cd $pkg_dir/$CONTROL && tar $ogargs -czf $tmp_dir/control.tar.gz . )
+ rm $tmp_dir/tarX
+