The compiled .pyc files contain time stamp corresponding to the compile time. This prevents binary reproducibility. This patch allows to achieve binary reproducibility by overriding the build time stamp by the value exported via SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Patch by Bernhard M. Wiedemann Upstream-Status: Backport Signed-off-by: Juro Bystricky Fri Feb 24 17:08:25 UTC 2017 - bwiedemann@suse.com - Add reproducible.patch to allow reproducible builds of various python packages like python-amqp Upstream: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/296 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ Index: Python-2.7.13/Lib/py_compile.py =================================================================== --- Python-2.7.13.orig/Lib/py_compile.py +++ Python-2.7.13/Lib/py_compile.py @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ def compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None timestamp = long(os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_mtime) except AttributeError: timestamp = long(os.stat(file).st_mtime) + sde = os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH') + if sde and timestamp > int(sde): + timestamp = int(sde) + os.utime(file, (timestamp, timestamp)) codestring = f.read() try: codeobject = __builtin__.compile(codestring, dfile or file,'exec')