diff --git a/manifest/sourcefile.py b/manifest/sourcefile.py
index 9ef320d55f2f17..b44b788b69e7cc 100644
--- a/manifest/sourcefile.py
+++ b/manifest/sourcefile.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import imp
 import os
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
 from fnmatch import fnmatch
@@ -6,6 +7,9 @@
 except ImportError:
     from xml.etree import ElementTree
 
+here = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+localpaths = imp.load_source("localpaths", os.path.abspath(os.path.join(here, os.pardir, "localpaths.py")))
+
 import html5lib
 
 from . import vcs