diff --git a/package/base-files/Makefile b/package/base-files/Makefile
index 3fcf20a8443..38d72fd4524 100644
--- a/package/base-files/Makefile
+++ b/package/base-files/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/kernel.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/version.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=base-files
-PKG_RELEASE:=173.3
+PKG_RELEASE:=173.4
 PKG_FLAGS:=nonshared
 
 PKG_FILE_DEPENDS:=$(PLATFORM_DIR)/ $(GENERIC_PLATFORM_DIR)/base-files/
diff --git a/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade b/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
index c095ca81c50..71c7faa6dbc 100755
--- a/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
+++ b/package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade
@@ -101,12 +101,31 @@ EOF
 # prevent messages from clobbering the tarball when using stdout
 [ "$CONF_BACKUP" = "-" ] && export VERBOSE=0
 
+
+list_conffiles() {
+	awk '
+		BEGIN { conffiles = 0 }
+		/^Conffiles:/ { conffiles = 1; next }
+		!/^ / { conffiles = 0; next }
+		conffiles == 1 { print }
+	' /usr/lib/opkg/status
+}
+
+list_changed_conffiles() {
+	# Cannot handle spaces in filenames - but opkg cannot either...
+	list_conffiles | while read file csum; do
+		[ -r "$file" ] || continue
+
+		echo "${csum}  ${file}" | sha256sum -sc - || echo "$file"
+	done
+}
+
 add_uci_conffiles() {
 	local file="$1"
 	( find $(sed -ne '/^[[:space:]]*$/d; /^#/d; p' \
 		/etc/sysupgrade.conf /lib/upgrade/keep.d/* 2>/dev/null) \
 		-type f -o -type l 2>/dev/null;
-	  opkg list-changed-conffiles ) | sort -u > "$file"
+	  list_changed_conffiles ) | sort -u > "$file"
 	return 0
 }