rsync'ing symlinks

[Blair Zajac]

I need the same patch for two ports (zeroc-ice35 and py-zeroc-ice35) and 
right now the patch file in py-zeroc-ice35 is a symlink to the one in 
zeroc-ice35.

# port -v sync
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from 
rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
receiving file list ... done
./
skipping non-regular file 
"python/py-zeroc-ice35/files/patch-ice.cpp.config.Make.rules.Darwin.diff"

Can we add syncing of symlinks to the rsync command?

One other question, does updating any file in a port directory, e.g. 
zeroc-ice35/, cause a rebuild, or just modifying the Portfile?

Blair