OpenWrt (Chaos Calmer 15.05.1): `opkg install <package> -d ram` is failing

When I try to install python-xml using opkg install python-xml -d ram It goes through the following steps: - Installing... [WORKS] - Downloading... [WORKS] - Configuring... [FAILS] The "configuring" step fails with errors...

grep: /usr/lib/opkg/info/.control No such file or directory 
cat: can't open '/usr/lib/opkg/info/.list' No such file or directory

The files opkg is looking for are in the directory: /tmp/usr/lib/opkg/info **PROBLEM:** opkg should be looking to the /tmp directory when using the –d dest_name parameter Does anyone know how to get the "configuring" step to use /tmp as the root? *NOTE: I found an open ticket on openwrt.org, but it doesn't specify a workaround.*