#If you're so lucky as to be using a Windriver Linux product, and your
#patch files are actually symlinks, this option set to yes will allow
#the symlink to be preserved (resulting in the file the link is pointing to
#to be refreshed).

--- quilt-0.48.orig/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in.org	2010-07-09 11:35:07.992300000 -0700
+++ quilt-0.48/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in	2010-07-09 11:41:01.312300001 -0700
@@ -783,7 +783,13 @@ cat_to_new_file()
 {
 	local filename="$1"
 
-	[ -e "$filename" ] && rm -f "$filename"
+	if [ -e "$filename" ]
+	then
+	    if [ "$QUILT_NO_RM_SYMLINKS" != "yes" ]
+	    then
+		rm -f "$filename"
+	    fi
+	fi
 
 	case "$filename" in
 	*.gz)
--- quilt-0.48.orig/quilt.quiltrc.org	2010-07-09 11:45:07.582300001 -0700
+++ quilt-0.48/quilt.quiltrc	2010-07-09 11:46:35.222300001 -0700
@@ -29,3 +29,9 @@ QUILT_PATCHES_PREFIX=yes
 # Use a specific editor for quilt (defaults to the value of $EDITOR before
 # sourcing this configuration file, or vi if $EDITOR wasn't set).
 #EDITOR=nedit
+
+#If patch files are actually symlinks, this option set to yes will allow
+#the symlink to be preserved (resulting in the file the link is pointing to
+#to be refreshed).
+QUILT_NO_RM_SYMLINKS=yes
+