diff --git a/mkinitcpio/0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch b/mkinitcpio/0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0514846
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mkinitcpio/0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From eabdad3798b43fa5e9aacd0d0395a74154e56434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: nl6720 <nl6720@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 10:51:49 +0200
+Subject: [mkinitcpio] [PATCH 1/1] functions: fix overwriting of symlinks with
+ regular files
+
+Use `cp --remove-destination` in `add_file` to remove the destination
+file. Without this, if the destination file is an existing symlink, it
+will be the link target that will get overwritten, not the symlink.
+---
+ functions | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/functions b/functions
+index 9939e25..3b3de05 100644
+--- a/functions
++++ b/functions
+@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ add_file() {
+         fi
+         if [[ -z "$mode" ]]; then
+             add_dir "${dest%/*}"
+-            command cp -f --preserve=mode,ownership "$src" "${BUILDROOT}${dest}"
++            command cp --remove-destination --preserve=mode,ownership "$src" "${BUILDROOT}${dest}"
+         else
+             command install -Dm"$mode" "$src" "${BUILDROOT}${dest}"
+         fi
diff --git a/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD b/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD
index 159ee56..d68b722 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 pkgname=mkinitcpio
 pkgver=34
-pkgrel=01
+pkgrel=02
 pkgdesc="Modular initramfs image creation utility"
 #url='https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio'
 #url='https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio'
@@ -29,12 +29,15 @@ provides=("mkinitcpio=$pkgver-$pkgrel"
 source=("$url/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.sig}
         nosystemd.patch
 #        "fix-strip.patch::https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/commit/dece596d569ca90af902bf2403227b478b629c03.patch"
-	mkinitcpio.conf)
+	mkinitcpio.conf
+        0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch)
 
 prepare() {
+	patch -Np1 -d "$pkgname-$pkgver" < '0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch'
 	cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
 #	patch -Np1 < "$srcdir/fix-strip.patch"
 	patch -Np1 -i ../nosystemd.patch
+
 }
 
 check() {
@@ -59,5 +62,7 @@ sha256sums=(181a5915fc4e7db4fcfb38fb5fa022ba5a782f6904d6d6455c6b5a0617109bd0  #
 	c7fd8f38a6d15e73276e8faff9dd1b1356a74dc91a38c8f1c566a359757f864f  # mkinitcpio-34.tar.gz.sig
 	c4afeb6b3300c4d50c3f01233705b542f59d6e95a7670f7efde097ea209ef5bd  # nosystemd.patch
 #	d5ca05e3f2b338f6ac988461ba9bd60c030e7cb092aecf90b43d5a470e7e3652  # fix-strip.patch
-	c8ec2debd54233927dd97bd25ef4ac00e1ac850f9b34a3d414e1a66608c36040) # mkinitcpio.conf
+	c8ec2debd54233927dd97bd25ef4ac00e1ac850f9b34a3d414e1a66608c36040  # mkinitcpio.conf
+	82a34a48154c384980aa4e61d49bd447c568d5d60676f27c14a2a12a5ea63b4d) # 0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch
+
 
diff --git a/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD-arch b/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD-arch
index 7c497fd..f61d2f1 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD-arch
+++ b/mkinitcpio/PKGBUILD-arch
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 pkgname=mkinitcpio
 pkgver=34
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Modular initramfs image creation utility"
 arch=('any')
 url='https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio'
@@ -21,15 +21,22 @@ optdepends=('gzip: Use gzip compression for the initramfs image'
             'mkinitcpio-nfs-utils: Support for root filesystem on NFS')
 provides=('initramfs')
 backup=('etc/mkinitcpio.conf')
-source=("https://sources.archlinux.org/other/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.sig})
+source=("https://sources.archlinux.org/other/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.sig}
+        '0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch')
 install=mkinitcpio.install
 sha512sums=('cf8ab66d4609911ca6a1d2af1bfcf320eed99d29657c0ccfeca2fdc8ea00cfb6575e55645424de13fcf37aa12a39ac7b43a330c716e73e9c16a75178738ebe70'
-            'SKIP')
+            'SKIP'
+            'a43e66101edc301ae893a25eee6caa83c56a790cbac1685697fb999008c8210e46ca49e0700242f8321731264084462641285954db55d3daa2c7e8b62d1cc66c')
 b2sums=('06a6c6a0951b9b6161e2db01e2956d87da303b2ec029bdd183efed3b074b176a9f107e9a723fc6a7fa157ecd703d7627d8aaa0b9290022a09e30daa46784841c'
-        'SKIP')
+        'SKIP'
+        'a2ed9e8ff4b6fab1d6f6c1dae4dcf890b4434cb31ebdfe73ea54fd4af499849e2b98e565915cc331bd97f15f21d9147ee0499cf75b516562bfd7f1793e838e99')
 validpgpkeys=('ECCAC84C1BA08A6CC8E63FBBF22FB1D78A77AEAB'    # Giancarlo Razzolini
               'C100346676634E80C940FB9E9C02FF419FECBE16')   # Morten Linderud
 
+prepare() {
+  patch -Np1 -d "$pkgname-$pkgver" < '0001-functions-fix-overwriting-of-symlinks-with-regular-f.patch'
+}
+
 check() {
   make -C "$pkgname-$pkgver" check
 }
diff --git a/mkinitcpio/deps b/mkinitcpio/deps
index 5c13d9f..bbe7912 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio/deps
+++ b/mkinitcpio/deps
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ bash-bats
 bash-bats-assert
 lzop
 
+