I think I've gotten over the first hurdle. I ended up using the following command: $ quilt setup -d rpmbuild/BUILD --sourcedir rpmbuild/SOURCES/ rpmbuild/SPECS/<name>.spec Now that doesn't fix the persistence issue since anything in BUILD/ will be deleted on the next run of rpmbuild... In this case 'patches' ends up being a symbolic link to ../SOURCES so that's ok, but the 'series' file will get deleted... Thanks, Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel