in order to make builds reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ for the definition of this variable. This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE. Signed-off-by: Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann@xxxxxxx> --- python/sepolicy/sepolicy/manpage.py | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/manpage.py b/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/manpage.py index 3e8a3be9..2f847abb 100755 --- a/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/manpage.py +++ b/python/sepolicy/sepolicy/manpage.py @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ typealias_types = { equiv_dict = {"smbd": ["samba"], "httpd": ["apache"], "virtd": ["virt", "libvirt"], "named": ["bind"], "fsdaemon": ["smartmon"], "mdadm": ["raid"]} equiv_dirs = ["/var"] +man_date = time.strftime("%y-%m-%d", time.gmtime( + int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time())))) modules_dict = None @@ -569,7 +571,7 @@ class ManPage: def _typealias(self,typealias): self.fd.write('.TH "%(typealias)s_selinux" "8" "%(date)s" "%(typealias)s" "SELinux Policy %(typealias)s"' - % {'typealias':typealias, 'date': time.strftime("%y-%m-%d")}) + % {'typealias':typealias, 'date': man_date}) self.fd.write(r""" .SH "NAME" %(typealias)s_selinux \- Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the %(typealias)s processes @@ -588,7 +590,7 @@ man page for more details. def _header(self): self.fd.write('.TH "%(domainname)s_selinux" "8" "%(date)s" "%(domainname)s" "SELinux Policy %(domainname)s"' - % {'domainname': self.domainname, 'date': time.strftime("%y-%m-%d")}) + % {'domainname': self.domainname, 'date': man_date}) self.fd.write(r""" .SH "NAME" %(domainname)s_selinux \- Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the %(domainname)s processes -- 2.26.2
