diff --git a/src/cmd-fetch b/src/cmd-fetch
index 02eaf47ea6..bbdf72bc79 100755
--- a/src/cmd-fetch
+++ b/src/cmd-fetch
@@ -70,8 +70,10 @@ if [ -n "${UPDATE_LOCKFILE}" ]; then
     # Put this under tmprepo so it gets automatically chown'ed if needed
     args="--ex-write-lockfile-to=${tmprepo}/tmp/manifest-lock.json"
     if [ -f "${manifest_lock_overrides}" ]; then
-        echo "NB: ignoring overrides ${manifest_lock_overrides}"
-        sleep 1
+        # Include the overrides in the resulting lockfile here; otherwise, we
+        # might not even be able to get a depsolve solely from the non-lockfile
+        # repos.
+        args+=" --ex-lockfile=${manifest_lock_overrides}"
     fi
 else
     for lock in "${manifest_lock}" "${manifest_lock_overrides}"; do