diff --git a/build/aggregate/build.xml b/build/aggregate/build.xml
index b1c22fd..d42584a 100644
--- a/build/aggregate/build.xml
+++ b/build/aggregate/build.xml
@@ -562,6 +562,10 @@ Using ant:   ant custom.build -f ../build.xml -Doutput.dir=`pwd` -DinputRepo=htt
 		<copy todir="${update.site.source.dir}" overwrite="true">
 			<fileset dir="${output.dir}" includes="${web.content.files}" />
 		</copy>
+
+		<!-- use updated site.xml instead of version with 0.0.0 -->
+		<move file="${update.site.source.dir}/site.out.xml" tofile="${update.site.source.dir}/site.xml" overwrite="true"/>
+
 	</target>
 
 	<target name="generate.site.properties">
@@ -610,6 +614,11 @@ Using ant:   ant custom.build -f ../build.xml -Doutput.dir=`pwd` -DinputRepo=htt
 		<loadfile property="site.contents" srcfile="${update.site.source.dir}/site.html" failonerror="false" />
 		<property name="site.contents" value="" />
 		<delete file="${update.site.source.dir}/site.html" quiet="true" />
+
+		<!-- update site.xml to replace 0.0.0 with actual versions -->
+		<xslt style="site.xml.xsl" in="${update.site.source.dir}/site.xml" out="${update.site.source.dir}/site.out.xml" force="true">
+			<classpath location="${COMMON_TOOLS}/saxon.jar" />
+		</xslt>
 	</target>
 
 	<!-- look for http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/jbosstools-3.*/logs/zip.list.txt; 
diff --git a/build/aggregate/pom.xml b/build/aggregate/pom.xml
index 68a56cf..82c8efc 100644
--- a/build/aggregate/pom.xml
+++ b/build/aggregate/pom.xml
@@ -23,5 +23,11 @@
 		mvn clean install -f coretests-site/pom.xml
 		mvn clean install -f soatests-site/pom.xml
 		...
+
+	     to build against local sources, use these properties:
+
+		mvn clean install ... \
+			-Djbosstools-nightly-staging-composite=file:///home/nboldt/tru/build/aggregate/local-site/ \
+			-Djboss-requirements-composite-mirror=file:///home/nboldt/tru/build/target-platform/REPO/
 	-->
 </project>