[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: remove build date from .PKGINFO header

This information is duplicated (in less friendly format) in the "builddate" entry and removing it improves reproducible packaging. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index 43c7e328..c019ae3b 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -635,7 +635,6 @@ write_pkginfo() { msg2 "$(gettext "Generating %s file...")" ".PKGINFO" printf "# Generated by makepkg %s\n" "$makepkg_version" printf "# using %s\n" "$(fakeroot -v)" - printf "# %s\n" "$(LC_ALL=C date -u)" write_kv_pair "pkgname" "$pkgname" if (( SPLITPKG )) || [[ "$pkgbase" != "$pkgname" ]]; then -- 2.12.0