From 451d7b2543e63ebf84df070b9b34c59a63098e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tshirtman <gabriel.pettier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 23:26:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] allow overloading of recipe origin using env vars

---
 distribute.sh         | 8 ++++++++
 docs/source/usage.rst | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/distribute.sh b/distribute.sh
index 0bdf90ced8..03d7a28d98 100755
--- a/distribute.sh
+++ b/distribute.sh
@@ -431,6 +431,14 @@ function run_get_packages() {
 
 	for module in $MODULES; do
 		# download dependencies for this module
+		# check if there is not an overload from environment
+		module_dir=$(eval "echo \$P4A_${module}_DIR")
+		if [ "$module_dir" ]
+		then
+			debug "\$P4A_${module}_DIR is not empty, using $module_dir dir instead of downloading"
+			cp -rf $module_dir $directory
+			continue
+		fi
 		debug "Download package for $module"
 
 		url="URL_$module"
diff --git a/docs/source/usage.rst b/docs/source/usage.rst
index 20b5256c27..2f27677173 100644
--- a/docs/source/usage.rst
+++ b/docs/source/usage.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ You can include other modules (or "recipes") to compile using `-m`::
 
 For a full list, refer to :ref:`recipes`
 
+.. note::
+
+   Recipes download a defined version of their needed package from the
+   internet, and build from it, if you know what you are doing, and want to
+   override that, you can export the env variable `P4A_recipe_name_DIR` and
+   this directory will be copied and used instead.
+
 Available options to `distribute.sh`::
 
     -d directory           Name of the distribution directory

From f7a1d29730415ea3cf4d3787dbdabc0bc4c4f511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tshirtman <gabriel.pettier@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:23:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix destination directory when overriding

---
 distribute.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/distribute.sh b/distribute.sh
index 03d7a28d98..37ef7b75d8 100755
--- a/distribute.sh
+++ b/distribute.sh
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ function run_get_packages() {
 		then
 			debug "\$P4A_${module}_DIR is not empty, using $module_dir dir instead of downloading"
 			cp -rf $module_dir $directory
+			directory=$(get_directory $filename)
 			continue
 		fi
 		debug "Download package for $module"