diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 72a3be2b6d..fde72b518e 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ config BROKEN
 	bool "Show broken platforms / packages" if DEVEL
 	default n
 
+config LOCALMIRROR
+	string "Local mirror for source packages" if DEVEL
+
 menuconfig BUILDOPTS
 	bool "Build Options" if DEVEL
 
diff --git a/scripts/download.pl b/scripts/download.pl
index 280e5f0d73..543dcc1879 100755
--- a/scripts/download.pl
+++ b/scripts/download.pl
@@ -21,13 +21,24 @@ my $ok;
 @ARGV > 0 or die "Syntax: $0 <target dir> <filename> <md5sum> <mirror> [<mirror> ...]\n";
 
 sub localmirrors {
-
     my @mlist;
-    open LM, "$scriptdir/localmirrors" or return ();
-    while (<LM>) {
-        chomp $_;
-        push @mlist, $_;
-    }
+    open LM, "$scriptdir/localmirrors" and do {
+	    while (<LM>) {
+			chomp $_;
+			push @mlist, $_;
+		}
+		close LM;
+	};
+	open CONFIG, "<".$ENV{'TOPDIR'}."/.config" and do {
+		while (<CONFIG>) {
+			/^CONFIG_LOCALMIRROR="(.+)"/ and do {
+				chomp;
+				push @mlist, $1;
+			};
+		}
+		close CONFIG;
+	};
+	
 
     return @mlist;
 }