diff --git a/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf b/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf
index f7f96fe2b6..35451a0d37 100644
--- a/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf
+++ b/package/opkg/files/opkg.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-src snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/$S/packages
+src/gz snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/$S/packages
 dest root /
 dest ram /tmp
 lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists