diff --git a/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils/arfile_header_split.patch b/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils/arfile_header_split.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4640367
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils/arfile_header_split.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--- ipkg-utils/arfile.py.orig	2010-09-29 13:38:15.000000000 -0700
++++ ipkg-utils/arfile.py	2010-10-01 16:06:00.000000000 -0700
+@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@
+             if l == "\n":
+                 l = self.f.readline()
+                 if not l: break
+             l = l.replace('`', '')
+-            descriptor = l.split()
++            # Field lengths from /usr/include/ar.h:
++            ar_field_lens = [ 16, 12, 6, 6, 8, 10, 2 ]
++            descriptor = []
++            for field_len in ar_field_lens:
++                descriptor.append(l[:field_len].strip())
++                l = l[field_len:]
+ #            print descriptor
+             size = int(descriptor[5])
+             memberName = descriptor[0][:-1]
diff --git a/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb b/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb
index 6b8d3ea..a8f2cb7 100644
--- a/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb
+++ b/recipes/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_svn.bb
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN} = "python"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_virtclass-native = ""
 SRCREV = "4747"
 PV = "0.1.8+svnr${SRCPV}"
-PR = "r6"
+PR = "r7"
 
 SRC_URI = "svn://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/;module=opkg-utils;proto=http \
            file://index-ignore-filenotfound.patch \
+           file://arfile_header_split.patch \
            file://mtime-int.patch"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/opkg-utils"