--- /dev/null
+--- a/src/opkg-cl.c
++++ b/src/opkg-cl.c
+@@ -169,7 +169,10 @@
+ printf("Confusion: getopt_long returned %d\n", c);
+ }
+ }
+-
++
++ if(!conf->conf_file)
++ conf->conf_file = "/etc/opkg.conf";
++
+ if (parse_err)
+ return parse_err;
+ else