diff --git a/scripts/pkgfile b/scripts/pkgfile
index b83d0e6..3551508 100755
--- a/scripts/pkgfile
+++ b/scripts/pkgfile
@@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ update () {
 
                 msg "Updating [%s] file list... " $repo
                 vmsg "Trying mirror %s... " $mirror
-                wget -q "$RATELIMIT" "$filelist" -O "$repofile" || { warn "Could not retrieve %s\n" $filelist; continue; }
+                if echo ${mirror} | grep -qoE "^file://" ; then
+                    cp "$(echo ${filelist} | sed 's/^file:\/\///1')" "$repofile"
+                else
+                    wget -q "$RATELIMIT" "$filelist" -O "$repofile" || { warn "Could not retrieve %s\n" $filelist; continue; }
+                fi
 
                 msg "Extracting [%s] file list... " $repo
                 mkdir -p "$repo.tmp" || { warn "Could not create temporary directory for %s\n" $repo; continue; }