diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc
index afe6cb0ce6..3d568867d4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc
@@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ do_configure_prepend() {
 	sed -i -e s:-Werror::g ${S}/libopkg/Makefile.am
 }
 
-inherit autotools pkgconfig
+inherit autotools pkgconfig systemd
+
+python () {
+    if 'sysvinit' not in d.getVar("DISTRO_FEATURES", True).split():
+        pn = d.getVar('PN', True)
+        d.setVar('SYSTEMD_SERVICE_%s' % (pn), 'opkg-configure.service')
+}
 
 target_localstatedir := "${localstatedir}"
 OPKGLIBDIR = "${target_localstatedir}/lib"
@@ -49,6 +55,16 @@ FILES_libopkg = "${libdir}/*.so.* ${OPKGLIBDIR}/opkg/"
 do_install_append() {
 	# We need to create the lock directory
 	install -d ${D}${OPKGLIBDIR}/opkg
+
+	if ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','sysvinit','false','true',d)};then
+		install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+		install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/opkg-configure.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/
+		sed -i -e 's,@BASE_BINDIR@,${base_bindir},g' \
+			-e 's,@SYSCONFDIR@,${sysconfdir},g' \
+			-e 's,@BINDIR@,${bindir},g' \
+			-e 's,@SYSTEMD_UNITDIR@,${systemd_unitdir},g' \
+			${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/opkg-configure.service
+	fi
 }
 
 do_install_append_class-native() {
@@ -59,7 +75,8 @@ do_install_append_class-native() {
 
 pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
 #!/bin/sh
-if [ "x$D" != "x" ] && [ -f $D${OPKGLIBDIR}/opkg/status ]; then
+if ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','sysvinit','true','false',d)} && \
+	[ "x$D" != "x" ] && [ -f $D${OPKGLIBDIR}/opkg/status ]; then
 	install -d $D${sysconfdir}/rcS.d
 
 	# this happens at S98 where our good 'ole packages script used to run
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-configure.service b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-configure.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a1c3a31796
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-configure.service
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Opkg first boot configure
+DefaultDependencies=no
+After=systemd-remount-fs.service systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service tmp.mount
+Before=sysinit.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+EnvironmentFile=-@SYSCONFDIR@/default/postinst
+ExecStart=@BASE_BINDIR@/sh -c " if [ $POSTINST_LOGGING = '1' ]; then @BINDIR@/opkg-cl configure > $LOGFILE 2>&1; else @BINDIR@/opkg-cl configure; fi"
+ExecStartPost=@BASE_BINDIR@/systemctl disable opkg-configure.service
+StandardOutput=syslog
+RemainAfterExit=No
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=basic.target
+WantedBy=sysinit.target
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
index bc10491030..cd0485fe38 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ require opkg.inc
 SRC_URI = "svn://opkg.googlecode.com/svn;module=trunk;protocol=http \
            file://no-install-recommends.patch \
            file://add-exclude.patch \
+           file://opkg-configure.service \
 "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/trunk"